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This Little "Book Establishes 

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Jimong Mankind. 

-See Chapter IV and First Extract in Chapter V. 



LOST AND FOUND 







This Little Beck Establishes Woman's 
Pre-eminence Among Mankind. 

— See Chapter IV and first extract in Chapter V. 



Columbus, Ohio: 

Press of Fred. J. Heer, 

1903. 






THE LIBRARY OF 
CONbRfcSS, 

Two Copies Recoiveo 

JUN 25 i903 | 

ItLASS^ XXc.No. 
COPYJL 



COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY 

DAVID F. MCKITRICK, 
COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



PREFACE. 

The Author of this little booklet can give no special 
motive that prompted him to write it. Nevertheless, it has 
been written. The Lord worketh all things after the counsel 
of His own will (Eph. i. 11). The reader no doubt will 
decide after noticing proposition for distribution of books in 
conclusion of fifth chapter, that it could hardly be a selfish 
motive for financial gain. The writer feels that if prompted 
by any one leading motive, it would be from a desire to 
help some of the Father's children to grow in grace and in 
the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 
Peter iii, 18). That was the Saviour's mission. He said 
the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was 
lost. He didn't say He came to keep men from being lost 
(Luke xix. 10). The writer has given a brief outline of 
our Father's plan and purpose according to his interpreta- 
tion, trusting without error. And while searching for truth 
to impart to others, the Lord is uncovering some of the 
mysteries for his own growth and to the glory and honor of 
the Father and Son. This little book should be read by 
every woman, as it establishes the truth of woman's inherited 
pre-eminence among mankind, under title of The Immor- 
tality of the Soul, Chapter IV. See also First Extract. 
God's second things. Woman's pre-eminence verified. 

First written 1901 and 1902 ; rewritten and published 
in 1903. 

Author. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Chapter I. 

PAGE 

A Brief Outline of Our Father's Plan and Purpose as Re- 
viewed from a Reasonable and Comprehensive Stand- 
point 5 

Chapter II. 
The Light Seems to be Penetrating Some of the Dark 

Places 21 

Chapter III. 
The Wisdom of this World Compared withJGod's Plan 

and Purpose ........ 29 

Chapter IV. 
The Soul and Spirit of Man ..... 50 
First Extract — God's Second Things — Woman Pre- 
eminent 63 

Second Extract — Scripture Fire .... 66 

Third Extract — Present Truth .... 69 

Conclusion — Lord's Prayer ..... 74 



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CHAPTER I. 

A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER'S PLAN AND PURPOSE 

AS REVIEWED FROM A REASONABLE AND 

COMPREHENSIVE STANDPOINT. 

For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save 
that which was Lost (Luke xix. 10). Jesus did not 
say He came to save Men from being Lost. About the 
first work the Savior did after entering upon His mis- 
sion was to seek out 12 Men to take a special course in 
a private school and I may say truthfully under the 
greatest teacher the world has ever known. The 
school would be located wherever the circumstances 
and emergencies were presented, nothing private 
but the mysteries and Jesus gave reasons why He spoke 
to some in parables (Mark iv. 11. 12). The time had 
been fixed for the course to close at about three and 
half years which would prepare this little class or 
cabinet for its future work. This selection was from 
the common people and there was evidence that they 
were at a loss to know what their future work would 
be at the time they were chosen. Nevertheless they 
accepted the invitation. Little did they comprehend 
that they were to participate in laying the foundation 
for a world government for the purpose of bringing 
a Lost world to the knowledge of the truth. Pilate 
saith unto Jesus what is truth. (John xix. 38.) It 
has been said that truth is many sided and it has also 
been said that anything could be proven by the B'ible. 
I would rather believe these sayings were for a lack 
of spiritual understanding. The Bible was made for 



6 LOST AND FOUND. 

Man and not Man for the Bible. Jesus said the Sab- 
bath was made for Man and not man for the Sabbath. 
Now all of this evidence is found in the Bible (Mark 
ii. 2J. 28). We expect to substantiate the truth 
whenever due, to be understood during the discussion 
of this all important subject. Please remember when- 
ever I say we I include our Father, His Son and their 
witnesses. Paul the apostle said there must be a 
falling away from the truth first (2 Thess. ii. 3). God 
our Father works on time and order. Surface readers 
of the Word make confusion of the Father's time and 
plan. 

And these are some of the hindrances that keep 
men from coming to the knowledge of the truth from 
that Lost condition according to my understanding. 
What does truth mean or what is truth, in connection 
with Lost as defined by the great teachers of the past 
and in part at the present day under the nominal 
church system? I have been hearing from the pulpit 
and reading from publications for scores of years 
about Salvation, Redemption, Conversion and going to 
to be Lost, and many other high sounding words that 
the mass of the common people of the religious world 
did not comprehend. Although now light with ad- 
vanced education is breaking the bands of darkness 
and superstition, yet that same condition prevails to- 
day, viewed from different standpoints on the spirit- 
ual plane. And I am talking to the nominal church 
world as the outside world care nothing for these 
things and make no pretensions. If you or I were 
heirs to millions and knew it not, and would pass 
out of physical existence without any knowledge of 
the fact, we perish in that condition, a Lost condition 
to that fact. Or if we had heard of these inherited 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER S PLAN, ETC. 7 

fortunes, but through a great variety of misrepresen- 
tations, and a lack of a proper understanding on our 
own part to proceed to obtain the facts in the case, and 
these are the conclusions at the end of our physical 
existence, we perish without the possession. A Lost 
conditon, exactly the condition of the world to-day 
and has been since the fall of our first parents. When 
I say world I mean the majority of the nominal 
church world, which seem to be in doubt as to the 
origin of man. And one of the most prominent 
features in our subject will be to establish the truth 
of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man, 
the Lord worketh all things after the counsel of His 
own will (Eph. i. n). We ought to be able and will- 
ing to take our Father at His word. I cannot doubt 
His will and purpose, since I have learned of His love 
and plan. It does seem strange to find such a large 
majority of the world that fail to take our Father at 
His word, when it seems so plain. I don't believe it 
safe to trust in the plans poor weak man has arranged 
in the future life for his Brethren. And these things 
are causing commotions and controversies. The ele- 
ments under the present ecclesiastical heavens are be- 
ginning to melt as it were, it would seem. The 
trumpets are sounding louder and louder as heard 
from the signs of the times. It certainly must be the 
Gentiles that are wandering in the wilderness of dark- 
ness now. The times of the Gentiles is nearing the 
end. (Luke xxi. 24.) Dear reader, are you a truth 
seeker? If so, can you see the significance of the 
Hague Tribunal of arbitration and similar world com- 
binations? Watch, as a snare shall "that day" come 
on all that dwell on the face of the earth, (Luke xxi. 
34-36). The most prominent feature in the mission 



8 LOST AND FOUND. 

of Jesus, our Elder Brother, was to make known and 
introduce His Father as our Father which art in 
heaven, although not until our Father had introduced 
Him publicly at the time of His Baptism. Behold the 
lamb of God, which taketh away the Sin of the world 
(John i. 29). This was the Father's (Seal) given to 
John's preaching as a witness to the truth of the proc- 
lamation, Thou art my beloved Son in thee I am well 
pleased (Luke iii. 22). Heaven is a condition con- 
sidered on the material plane it would seem, Jesus 
when teaching his disciples how to pray, said thy 
kingdom come thy will be done in earth the earthly 
tabernacle as it is in heaven. 2 Peter i. 13. 14. Matt, 
vi. 9. 10.) 

Jesus was the embodiment of heaven. John the 
Baptist proclaimed this truthfully when he said re- 
pent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (John 
iii. 2). My understanding is that he meant that Jesus 
contained all the essential elements of heaven within 
His earthly body. His works were righteousness. 
John the Baptist was also a representative of right- 
eousness, but not as the finished man Christ Jesus. 
He was finished when He came, except the putting 
off the earthly tabernacle. My thoughts have often 
dwelt upon these two wonderful characters when read- 
ing from John's preaching; cousins on the natural 
earthly plane, brothers on the higher spiritual plane. 
And yet John says He (Jesus) must increase, but I 
must decrease (John iii. 30). John was to go through 
the regular process of creation and redemption which 
are linked together as it were until finished. John 
fully understood the process of finishing that Jesus 
was to pass through, because it was the Father that 
worked through both, John and Jesus. There was a 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER'S PLAN, ETC. 9 

man sent from God, our Father, whose name was 
John. He was not that light, but came to introduce, 
or was sent. (John i. 6. 8.) Jesus usually calls him- 
self the Son of Man. It would seem that He wanted 
to impress the fact upon the world of the Fatherhood 
of God and the Brotherhood of Man. He was the 
first begotten Son of our Father, because He was the 
first finished after the Father's image, nature after 
coming into the world, and flesh, and passing through 
all the trials and temptations even unto death, yet 
without Sin, to give life to a lost world. His ex- 
ample was the way of life. The law and the proph- 
ets had advanced the world to a standstill at that time, 
it would seem. As the light had almost gone out by 
the time the Savior, the little cabinet, and immediate 
followers had passed to their reward. This was the 
falling away that Paul speaks of in 2 Thess. ii. 3. It 
was darkness before the Savior came, and the 
darkness was not yet ready for the light. (John iii. 
19. 20.) Jesus finished the mission of His first ad- 
vent to the satisfaction of our Father. Yes, that was 
proclaimed from the cross It is Finished (John xix. 
30). That is where our Father's love is visible to the 
spiritual understanding. It was not to appease our 
Father's wrath, as a majority of our nominal brethren 
would try to make it appear. I have heard pro- 
claimed from a pulpit in an Ohio town within the last 
two years that God our Father had to be reconciled to 
Man. And the congregation that subscribe to this 
sort of fiction claim to be civilized. Jesus says no 
Man can come unto Him except the Father draw him. 
(John vi. 44. 65.) This is denied by the majority of 
the sects in the nominal church system. This little 
book no doubt will fall into the hands of some that may 



10 LOST AND FOUND. 

not understand what constitutes the nominal church 
system, as the writer takes the liberty in proclaiming 
it. As I understand from intelligent authority that it 
can be properly called a world-church, made up as it 
is from all of the sects under the ecclesiastical heav- 
ens, recognized as Christendom. This is the results 
from the falling away from the truth as Paul pro- 
claimed would be the result. (2 Thess. ii. 3.) This 
thought will probably be taken up again later on. But 
there are few to-day that recognize and proclaim the 
facts as I have stated. But I have no doubt from the 
present light that is dawning upon the world, that 
there are many that can see this fulfillment, but 
through fear of the results that might follow, keep 
their light under a bushel. I say this with charity, for 
I know what it is to go against these selfish motives. 
Some may be highly connected with the social ma- 
chines, and the general results are and have been that 
the machine organizations run the nominal church, 
world to-day. And thus we can properly call the 
combinations the nominal church system. And as I 
had quoted Jesus as saying that no man could come 
unto Him except the Father draw him, which is de- 
nied by the majority of the sects. Yet Peter denied 
the Savior of the world the day the Savior was be- 
trayed. He was a follower of the Master but not 
converted (Luke xxii. 32). I would like to avoid 
saying anti-Christ. It does seem to me that the anti- 
christs have been and are still very numerous. This 
may stagger some of our pious brethren. Peter not 
converted after more than three and a half years an 
intimate follower of the Lord Jesus ? I heard a pious 
brother of one of the sects say that there was not much 
doubt now (that was some 4 or 5 years ago) that the 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER^ PLAN, ETC. 11 

head or power of the Mohammedan religion was the 
Man of Sin as described by Paul in ii Thess. n. 45. 
Such a thought should not be entertained for a mo- 
ment by a truth seeker, but he should be able to locate 
the Man of Sin ; he is visible to the spiritual under- 
standing. The Mohammedans make no pretensions 
of being followers of Christ and know very little about 
the teachings of Jesus. Anti-Christs are followers by 
name. This Mohammedan transfer is similar to the 
location of milk sickness in the early days in this coun- 
try. You could always hear of its ravages, but if 
those interviewed and also their neighbors were in 
good health, as well as their cattle, milk sickness 
would probably be located in the next county, and 
probably not that near by. It w^as called and known 
in those days trimbles or^milk sick that would be about 
as near as one could get to it under similar circum- 
stances. Our Father fully understands what man is. 
capable of doing when the opportunity presents itself. 
And these things are in fulfillment that the Lord work- 
eth all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph. 
i. 11). Man made arrangements that are not in har- 
mony with the Father's plans, will be reversed when 
the proper time .arrives, and destruction follows. 
Jesus said I am come to send fire on the earth. And 
what will I, if it be already kindled (Luke xii. 49). 
This fire was to burn slowly until the time of the end. 
The end of the Gospel age. Then light and knowl- 
edge will have fully come to disperse darkness and 
superstition. For our God is a consuming fire (Heb. 
xii. 29). For God our Father hath concluded them all 
in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all. For 
the gifts and calling of God our Father are without 
repentance (Rom. xi. 29-32). This appears reason- 



12 LOST AND FOUND. 

able from a spiritual standpoint. I believe it to be a 
good investment to take our Father at His word. The 
subject under consideration is what Jesus and the 
apostles say about these things. Jesus says He came 
to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke xix. 
10). And Paul's statement seems sufficiently broad 
when he says God our Father hath concluded them all 
in unbelief that He might have mercy upon all. I 
can't understand now since our Father has led me to 
understand His love, how intelligent people, it would 
seem, could subscribe to such horrible doctrines as the 
everlasting torment and annihilation in the face of 
such liberality on our Father's side of the question. 
And this Gospel has not been changed. And it is 
wonderful to know where these hypnotic delusions 
will lead the imagination. And I believe it has been 
necessary in its day of darkness, as the Lord worketh 
all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph. i. 
1 1 ) . But it is high time now to grow in grace and in 
the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jessus Christ 
(2 Peter iii. 18). Get out of the dogmatic ruts of the 
dark ages, if any are at a loss to know what the 
Savior came for at His first advent. And the evi- 
dences are that they are numerous, as there seems to 
exist a terrible confusion. Let no man take thy 
crown (Rev. iii. 11). Confusion leads to skepticism 
and infidelity. Jesus says : And if any man hear my 
words and believe not; I judge him not; for I came 
not to judge the world (people) but to save the world 
(John xii. 47). His first advent was not to judge the 
world, except to give an example of himself as to the 
process of judgment unto righteousness. And He 
said He came to save the world. Surely that was and 
is good news, coming as it does from the Father's only 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER'S PLAN, ETC. 13 

begotten Son, who came for that special purpose. 
And yet many of our traditional brethren bar this 
statement of the Savior of the world when the evi- 
dence seems so plain. His first advent was to make 
arrangements for the work during His absence and 
for His return to judge the world in righteousness by 
love and free grace (John v. 22-2y. Acts xvii. 31). 
Now there are multitudes of our pious brethren that 
read the Word to suit their creed, who will put up an 
argument that there is no scripture as above quoted. 
His first coming was the preparatory arrangements to 
be worked out between the first advent and his return 
to judge the living and the dead (John v. 25-29) ; His 
return will be for to save that which was lost. 

There are doubts now, but when He returns those 
doubts will be removed. The world will soon begin to 
recognize their Father and their brethren. That is, 
His children will be able to identify themselves with 
their Father and His children, their brethren. This 
seems plain, but it never has been plain enough to he 
accepted with but few exceptions, since the Light went 
out (John ix. 5.) from the first falling away from the 
truth. (2 Thess. iii. 3.) Jesus was the light of the 
world (people) that believed Him to be the Saviour 
of the world. The Father's only begotten Son. That 
was the true light that lighteth every man that cometh 
into the world. (John i. 9.) The world (people) 
must pass from darkness, that lost condition, into the 
marvellous light, (1 Peter ii. 9.) That will be the 
result when He returns, He shall see the travail of His 
soul and be satisfied, nothing else could satisfy the 
Saviour of the world. (Isaiah 53. 11.) I am come a 
light into the world that whosoever believeth on me 
should not abide in darkness. (John xii. 46.) There 



14 LOST AND FOUND. 

aie a great many of the Father's children that profess 
to be followers of the Saviour of the world, that are 
heavily burdened with the ceremonial yoke of dark- 
ness, and millions go to their graves loaded down with 
those dogmatic goats, who believed and were taught to 
believe that they were bearing the cross as our Saviour 
and the Apostles did. These are the formulated inter- 
pretations by surface readers of our Father's Holy 
Word, and this seems to attract the mass of the world 
more than to seek on their own part for spiritual insight. 
It would seem that the natural man can be influenced 
by some hypnotic power more easily than by a reason- 
able view of our Father's Word. He that is not with 
me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me 
scattereth abroad. (Matt. xii. 30.) Surely this saying 
has been fulfilled to the letter since the falling away 
began (2 Thess. ii. 3). But a great deal of this has 
been done through ignorance of the true light, and 
we have all the evidence necessary to prove, that all 
things are of God our Father (Rom. xi. 36, 1 Cor. viii. 
6. ) . And in the due process of time according to our 
Father's plan and purpose, through His Son, will dis- 
pose of those mystic goats, however, it may seem a 
long while before they have been entirely eradicated 
from the Father's loved ones. For He so loved the 
world His children), that He gave His only begotten 
finished Son for that special purpose, so that they 
might be freed from those mystical dogmas (John viii. 
36.) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall 
be free indeed. The thousand years is set apart for 
this special purpose of freeing those in bondage to 
darkness, and then . the order will go forth from 
our Father's well-beloved Son, to the mystical delu- 
sions or darkness, depart ye cursed into everlasting fire 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER'S PLAN, ETC. 15 

(Matt. xxv. 41). There is no doubt, viewed from a 
spiritual standpoint, that this will certainly be hell fire 
for some of the Father's poor deluded children who 
had fondled those ceremonial pets until (Hades), the 
grave had received them. But finally the poor inno- 
cent sheep (man), that knew not his brother or neigh- 
bor, the Saviour of the world will say, come ye blessed 
of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared from the 
foundation of the world (Matt. xxv. 34). These trans- 
actions are not accomplished in a twenty-four hour 
day as above stated, the thousand year day is set apart 
for that work. I have no doubt but it will seem to be 
a long period before some of these poor children have 
become reconciled, regenerated, so that they may ap- 
proach the presence of their loving Father and His 
Son; but it will be glorious to inherit the kingdom 
after the reconciliation, and it will be more glorious to 
inherit a crown and a seat in the throne of the kingdom 
and reign with Christ, the King a thousand years (Rev. 
xx. 6.). The throne is promised to Christ, the first 
fruits, the overcomers, the saints that are in the race for 
the high calling, the elect (Rev. v. 8, Col. iii. 4, Rev. 
ii. 26, iii. 21.). If any man's work shall be burned, he 
shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so 
as by fire. (1 Cor. iii. 15.) The overcomers that are 
in the race for the high calling forfeit their stock in the 
Babel buildings, which are the works that must be 
burned or abandoned (Gen. xi. 9.), for our God is 
a consuming fire (Heb. xii. 29,). This is the same 
kind of fire that burned all the murderous intent out of 
Saul of Tarsus, and it will be the same kind that will 
destroy all the evil works of man, the works of the devil. 
Then they will begin to realize what the fire of God's 
love means. Those that willingly pass through the fire 



16 LOST AND FOUND. 

of God's love in the race for the high calling are the 
elect, who are dying to sin, dying the second death 
as it were, before the physical. Blessed and holy is he 
that hath part in the first resurrection, on such the 
second death hath no power, but they shall be priests 
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a 
thousand years (Rev. xx. 6.), but as Christ represented 
physical death was the process of finishing, and the 
great majority of mankind, from our first parents down, 
must pass through the finishing process after their 
resurrection. Jesus was the first finished man after 
the Father's image, nature, likeness. This is why our 
Father could call Him His only begotten Son, and this 
was the great sacrifice for an example for His, the 
Father's love for the world (children). Then the ex- 
ample of obedience of this loving Son. Greater love 
hath no man than this, that a man lay down His life 
for His friends (John xv. 13). I have no doubt but 
these things may seem strange as presented and 
viewed from a dogmatic standpoint, as my past ex- 
perience would lead me to believe, but it is hard to 
get away from the truth when it is backed by the 
Word. God, our Father, has offered some very rich 
possessions to those of His children that make the sacri- 
fice that must be made in order to win the prize of 
the high calling. Regeneration through the second 
death viewed from a spiritual standpoint is the pro- 
cess whereby the overcomers will receive a crown and 
title to a seat in the throne. He that overcometh shall 
inherit all things (Rev. xxi. 7), and whosoever was 
not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the 
lake of fire. My dear readers this was identically the 
same kind of fire that Saul of Tarsus ran into on the 
way to Damascus, and death and hell were cast into the 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER^ PLAN, ETC. 17 

lake of fire, this is the second death (Rev. xx. 14. 15). 
I think I have presented ample evidence to show that 
it is only the overcomers, the saints, that escape the 
second death in the age (world) to come. Now sup- 
pose the doctrines proclaimed by a majority of the 
sects, in the nominal church system, would prove true, 
though a deplorable calamity, then the mission of 
the man to be Saviour of the whole world would 
have been a total failure. If man with his worldly 
wisdom, hadn't come to the rescue of but a few of his 
brethren (1 Cor. iii. 18. 20), compared to the mass of 
the world of mankind, this wisdom by man on the nat- 
ural plane, consisted of a fire alarm system with vari- 
ous modes under the ecclesiastical system, which ac- 
cording to many of their annual reports for the last 
score or more of years has proved very successful. 
Notwithstanding these glowing reports, there is a 
growing tendency of late to modify, and many are in 
favor of abandoning the fire alarm system altogether. 
I asked an old Methodist brother and friend in one of 
the southern states, who was formerly a neighbor in the 
North, why such was the case, his answer was that the 
times had changed. I wonder who wrought this 
change ? God, our Father, or man with that powerful 
tool, free agency? The Lord worketh all things after 
the counsel of His own will (Eph. i. n). Let me 
give some more facts that Paul says are hard to be 
understood by the natural man, for he receiveth not 
the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness 
unto him ; neither can he know them because they are 
spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 11, 14), therefore, it is 
those with the spiritual understanding that are separat- 
ing the sheep from the goats during this life — the 



18 LOST AND FOUND. 

overcomers get rid of the mysticals. Paul said it is 
putting behind the things of this world, and pressing 
forward to the mark of the high calling, dying to sin. 
He says, I die daily (i Cor. xv. 31). The Lord's serv- 
ants, the overcomers, suffer the scoffs and persecutions 
and drink the cup of suffering to the death for the 
truth as it is in Christ Jesus ; this is the evidence re- 
quired to prove their claims as heirs and joint heirs 
with Christ the King in His throne. The elect for his 
cabinet are a limited number it would seem, but on 
account of the billions of the Father's children to be 
brought into the light and knowledge of the truth, it 
will require a host of righteous judges, and from the 
evidence, I would judge that the original twelve would 
be multiplied by thousands, as Enoch the seventh from 
Adam prophesied of the Lord's coming with ten 
thousands of His saints (Jude 14). Jesus, the head, 
the overcomers His body, the first fruits, the first 
resurrection (Rev. xx, 5. 6.), they well occupy the 
throne after the organization of the world government, 
whether the saints are a limited number or not. Let 
it be understood that the Lord's power is unlimited, 
and when all things are ready for judgment, King 
Jesus and His elect cabinet body will judge the world 
(their brethren), by love and free grace. For the 
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed 
them and shall lead them unto living fountains of 
waters, and God our Father shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes (Rev. vii. 17). And I say unto you, 
that many shall come from the east and from the west, 
and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the 
kingdom of heaven, but the children of the kindgom 
shall be cast out into outer darkness (Matt. viii. II. 
12). Now, my dear reader go with me to Rev. xx. 



A BRIEF OUTLINE OF OUR FATHER' S PLAN, ETC. 19 

11-13, and possibly you can see that the children of 
the kingdom are to be judged out of the books, these 
books are undoubtedly the nominal church books, as I 
understand the present truth. And I will take up this 
phase of the subject later on, as described in the tenth 
chapter of St. -John. 

These books have been kept by the reigning king- 
dom since the falling away and reorganization under 
the beast and His image, and it is evident that this is 
the kingdom referred to according to the books (Rev. 
xx. 11. 13). The evidence is also plain that the over- 
comers are judged in this life, their names are kept 
in the book of life because they have passed from death 
unto life before the finishing as Christ and the Apostles 
represented (Rev. xx. 12). Regeneration is a process 
not obtained in a day, month or year, except in a 
case like that of Saul of Tarsus which I have fully 
described. Regeneration, as I understand, means re- 
stored to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ 
Jesus our Elder Brother, restored from that lost con- 
dition, to know ourselves in connection with our 
Brother and our Father which art in heaven. Many 
good pious brethren don't seem to have any conception 
whatever of the Fatherhood of God our Father, and 
the brotherhood of man (lost children), on the higher 
spiritual plane, and it would be impossible for them to 
accept that condition on the natural earthly plane, 
understood by the natural man in this lost condition, 
on account of race, color, social and financial condi- 
tions, and it would seem they are necessary evils to 
carry along the Father's plans and purpose. The 
Lord worketh all things after the counsel of His own 
will (Eph. i. 11), this quotation is repudiated by the 
majority of religious people, as I have met some of 



20 LOST AND FOUND. 

that class very lately, but they seem to be conscien- 
tiously honest through some deluded fear. But the 
Lord will not be discouraged or confounded, for His 
power is without limit, for He saith unto Moses, I 
will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, for the 
Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same pur- 
pose have I raised thee up that I might shew my 
power in thee, and that my name might be declared 
throughout the earth (Rom. ix, 15-20). This is sub- 
stantial evidence that Pharaoh was a specially ap- 
pointed son to carry out the Father's plan and purpose 
on the natural evil plane. All things are possible with 
God our Father. (Matt. xix. 26. Mark x. 27.) It 
might then be possible that Robt. G. Ingersol was a 
specially appointed son on the natural plane to help 
cause the ceremonial bands of darkness and super- 
stition to be broken, the writer could not have enter- 
tained such a thought ten years previous to this time, 
but as the good Methodist brother remarked, the times 
have changed. And God our Father is the same yes- 
terday, to-day and forever (Heb. xiii. 8, Ps. xc. 4). 



CHAPTER II. 

THE LIGHT SEEMS TO BE PENETRATING SOME 
OF THE DARK PLACES, 

It has been said that the Lord is as merciful as He 
can be, and about 2000 years ago he drew up a plan 
of Salvation. That would seem almost too liberal to 
be true from a dogmatic standpoint. I would rather 
"believe from Bible chronology that it was about 6000 
years since our Father arranged this plan of Salvation. 
This was no after-thought of our allwise Father, al- 
though Satan, that old serpent called the devil, has 
played a prominent part all the way from Eden down 
to the present. But God our Father fixes the time 
limits. The Saviour came on time as arranged about 
6000 years since and we have ample evidence during 
the 4000 years previous to His coming that it was no 
after-thought. And the Saviour went away on time, 
and will return in like manner (Acts i. 11). Heaven 
was not far from those that were permitted to see 
Jesus enter therein. Dear reader, He will return in 
like manner. Remember there w r as but few compared 
with the world of mankind that witnessed His de- 
parture, and it will only be His Elect that will be pre- 
pared to meet Him in like manner. As He went away 
they will recognize Him, for they shall see Him as 
He is. He will not appear as He did at His first ad- 
vent, but shall return in like manner as He went away. 
His Elect are waiting and watching for His return and 
the signs indicate that the time is near at hand. For 
as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell 

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22 LOST AND FOUND. 

on the face of the whole earth (Luke xxi. 
34. 35). And why? Because the world are 
not looking for such an event, and they don't 
want any such thing to happen good, pious, religious 
brethren, but they don't care to talk on that subject; 
they profess to love the Lord, but would not love His 
appearing at this time. Most all have excuses. 
Jesus said the children of this world were wiser in 
their -generation than the children of Light. Yes, it 
is the children of this world, the natural Man, that 
are saying, where is the promise of His coming? For 
since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they 
were from the beginning of the creation. Knowing this 
first that there shall come in the last days scoffers 
walking after their own lusts. (2 Peter iii. 3. 4.) 
This is the worldly wisdom that the apostle Paul 
speaks of (1 Cor. i. 19-21). I met an old Methodist 
friend from boyhood while writing this little book. 
In our conversation he says,"Where do you get or find 
such Scripture or similar language as to Christ's re- 
turn, usually understood as second coming at the close 
of the Gospel age?" A good, pious brother I have no 
doubt, but he has no use for our Father's holy Word 
for his guide. Now that Brother is one of those scof- 
fers just described and is not aware of the fact. The 
Saviour's return is the unbroken theme all through 
the Gospels. I have it from reliable authority that 
young theological students are instructed not to pay 
much attention to prophecy, especially if it relates to 
the Lord's coming. I have no doubt but this is nec- 
essary to help along with our Father's plan but it is 
evident that it is only those that are waiting and 
watching that are permitted to understand the signs of 
the times as well as the chronology that the Father 



LIGHT IN DARK PLACES. 23 

has given for the truth seekers. Those things are 
overlooked by the nominal church system. The Lord 
worketh all things after the counsel of His own will 
(Eph. i. ii ). This is a fast age, or rather is closing 
on a fast line; the world is moving too fast to give 
thought to what it all means, and many good, pious 
brethren are ready to exclaim, "Where is the promise 
of His coming?" They are still doing business at the old 
stand ! Therefore let no man glory in men for all 
things are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is 
God's (i Cor. iii. 21-23). For you see your calling 
brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh, 
not many mighty, not many noble are called (1 Cor. 
i. 26). Those mighty men after the flesh are capable 
and willing to do business at the old stand through 
selfish pride and exaltation and not knowing why. 
It seems to be necessary according to prophecy to help 
bring on that greatest time of trouble the world has 
ever seen or will see, spoken by Daniel the/ prophet 
and confirmed by the Saviour. (Dan. xii. 1. Matt, 
xxiv. These troubles are brewing and have been recog- 
nized for some time by those that are watching. The 
Hague Tribunal for arbitration, the great coal strike 
and famine of 1902, the Venezuelan controversy, these 
with many similar indications of something the world 
is not looking for. The arbitration commission 
brought out the facts in the fifth chapter of the Epistle 
of James against the rich hoarders in the last days, 
behold the hire of the labourers which is of you kept 
back by fraud! Ye have heaped treasures to- 
gether for the last days. For as the days of Noah 
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. 
For as in the days that were before the flood, they were 
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage 



24 



LOST AND FOUND. 



until the day Noah entered the Ark, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matt. xxiv. 
38. 39.) Watch therefore. Verse 42. These are the 
Saviour's own words. But as I have already stated, 
it seems to be just as necessary for some of the Fath- 
er's children to help carry along the allwise Father's 
plans on the natural evil plane, as it is for some of 
His others to proclaim the true light on the higher 
spiritual plane which was arranged by our Father at 
the foundation of the world, and a majority of the 
world (His children) are doing their part and know it 
not and care not. The anticipated pleasures on the 
natural evil plane seem to be as necessary to develop 
the incentives required for material progress and en- 
joyment as the future glories are to those that have 
faith to strive to reach them. The Lord worketh all 
things after the counsel of His own will. (Eph. i. 
11.) I believe in quoting this passage often, for the 
Lord will not be satisfied until all shall know Him 
from the least unto the greatest. That at the name of 
Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue con- 
fess, for it is God our Father which worketh in you 
both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Phil, 
ii. 10-13.) My dear reader, is such evidence admis- 
sible from what I have learned of our Father's love 
and power? I cannot conceive where a limit could be 
placed whereby the power of Jesus, our elder Brother, 
could not bring all things into subjection to himself, 
who was sent by the Father for that special purpose. 
(Acts iii, 20-21.) I have power, says Jesus, to lay 
down my life and take it again. This commandment 
have I received of my Father. (John x. 18.) 

I am talking to the religious w r orld more especially 
as already intimated, the unprofesisonal world care 



LIGHT IN DARK PLACES. 25 

nothing for those things. However there is a class 
that would be considered in politics floaters, they are 
usually found among the social elements. The Father 
has a great many well meaning, pious children that 
teach and nurse bad doctrines. I met a physician in 
a western city that expressed himself similarly as to 
the bad doctrines of his own church sect, and not- 
withstanding this brother's advanced light, he was in- 
clined to think it better to keep his light under a 
bushel. I have no doubt but organization can be 
maintained better through darkness and superstition, 
which will accomplish selfish ends to better advantage. 
Our Father understands what the natural Man is 
capable of doing when the opportunity presents itself. 
The first one born to our first parents after they had 
disobeyed our Father's holy command was a mur- 
derer. He had inherited such a dominant part of the 
Adamic nature that Satan, that old serpent, the devil, 
had full control of it, and it would seem that nothing 
would satisfy that Lost condition but the blood of his 
brother who was the image of his mother's nature, 
who represented the motherhood of God her Father, 
because she was the mother of all living. (Gen. iii. 
20.) This thought will be considered in a later chap- 
ter, as it seems necessary now to follow closely the 
traits of this vagabond brother (Gen. iv. 14). which 
would seem to be about as near a lost condition as 
could well be described from a criminal category. A 
brother that would take the life of a brother on the 
natural plane has no conception of the Fatherhood of 
God or the Brotherhood of man on the higher spiritual 
plane. Then to think of this deplorable condition so 
soon after the first disobediance of his parents who 
transgressed the Father's holy command, and not- 



26 LOST AND FOUND. 

withstanding the Father had compassion on this fugi- 
tive Son. (Gen. iv. 14.) No wonder our Father's 
mercy is everlasting and forever. (Psalm c. 5. cvi. 
1. cvii. 1. cxviii. 1-4. cxxxvi.) It does seem that 
God our Father has been and is still exceedingly mer- 
ciful considering the wickedness of so many of His 
children. Some of His best cared for sons got into a 
terrible trouble down in Canaan a little over 2000 
years after this first murder just described. This 
would have been a duplicate of the one described had 
it not miscarried, and the victim was sold to some 
traffickers on their way down to Egypt. The price 
received for this brother was 20 pieces of silver. (Gen. 
xxxii. 38.) My dear truth seekers, can you see that 
the Lord worketh all things after the counsel of His 
own will (Eph. i. 11)? And a little later on these 
would-be murderers landed their whole race into bond- 
age, just where they had expected to land that brother 
for the 20 pieces of silver. And still our Father had 
compassion upon them. Then again later on the all- 
wise Father prepared a couple of His other Sons to 
lead those burdened bond children to freedom again, 
and it would seem that one of those would-be deliv- 
erers had lost all knowledge of the Fatherhood of God 
His Father and the Brotherhood of Man, for he slew 
one of his brother Egyptians and hid him in the sand 
and fled the country (Exodus ii. 12-15). This would 
seem to be a lost condition similar to that of his 
brother Cain viewed from the same standpoint. But 
after all of this lack of knowledge in regard to his 
brother and neighbor he proved to be one of our 
Father's best and devoted Sons, and finally God our 
Father appeared in the flaming bush and instructed 
him to return and persuade those brethren in bondage 



LIGHT IN DARK PLACES. 27 

to flee from their troubles and persecutions (Exodus 
iii. 10-22). And they Anally got them started after 
some terrible experiences, and many others as terrible 
followed while wandering in the wilderness for 40 
years before reaching their final destination, the prom- 
ised land. Their devoted leader and brother w r as just 
as devoted to their Father, but a majority of these new 
made freedmen were developing new incentives long 
before they reached their destination. Many were 
inclined to be Gold Bugs. It seemed that nothing 
would satisfy them but the Gold standard. Finally 
when Moses, their devoted leader, was absent on spe- 
cial business with their Father, on his return he found 
they had erected a Golden Calf for their standard 
(Exodus xxxii. 7. 8. 24). This same condition is in 
evidence at this present day, and the dawning light is 
growing brighter each day, it would seem, to those 
that are waiting and watching for the signs of the 
coming of the Prince of peace. But this Lost condi- 
tion will exist until He has come and established His 
throne for the restitution* of all things. This Lost 
condition seems to be a deplorable condition, consid- 
ering the present day surroundings when a knowl- 
edge of the truth is contained in our Father's holy 
Word without money and without price. Many 
branches of the nominal church system have been and 
are still doing a noble work in that line and the Lord 
will abundantly bless them in the due process of time. 
They have no doubt distributed millions of copies of 
God's word without price except for the machine ex- 
pense, although great good has been done, yet through 
this system of a dogmatic teaching through fear and 
superstition has caused some to denounce our Father's 
holy Word when they have no knowledge of the spir- 



28 LOST AND FOUND. 

itnal interpretations of His love, plan and purpose. 
The Lord worketh all things after the counsel of His 
own will (Eph. i. n). Piaise His name for His love. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD COMPARED WITH 
GOD'S PLAN AND PURPOSE. 

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise 
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the 
prudent. Therefore judge nothing before the time 
until the Lord come (i Cor. i. 19, iv. 5). It has been 
proclaimed by high authority from a worldly stand- 
point, that the schools and colleges will finally take 
the place of the church, of course that could only be 
the nominal world church, and why not to a great ex- 
tent, this is the preparatory world and age. The next 
world is for the everlasting gospel to be preached 
(Rev. xiv. 6). The civilizing and preparatory work 
should be considered one and the same during the 
Gospel age since Christ's first advent. The nominal 
church system under the present ecclesiastical heavens 
is civilizing as well as preparing the children of the 
kingdom of this world for judgment unto righteous- 
ness. This may be disputed nevertheless. The king- 
dom under the beast and his image still claims to be the 
reigning kingdom under Christ now 7 , and according as 
the Lord worketh all things after the counsel of His 
own will (Eph. i. 11), the claim can be considered 
proper in connection with this preparatory w 7 ork. 
There is a special election of the high calling for the 
elect, the saints, by the way of the second death which 
we expect to interpret comprehensively for the spirit- 
ual discerners. John the Baptist was last of the proph- 
ets and the special forerunner of Jesus previous to His 

29 



30 LOST AND FOUND. 

advent. There has been for some time a few present 
truth seekers that are proclaiming similar messages as 
that of John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness of 
darkness to prepare for the coming of the Lord (Luke 
iii. 4). And there will be more as the dawn grows 
brighter. This is another harvest similar to that at 
the Saviour's first advent, then it was the wheat and 
the chaff to be separated, now it is the wheat and the 
tares. The overcomers can be properly called or iden- 
tified as the wheat that is called out and the tares will 
be left in organized bundles to be burned ( 1 Cor. iii. 12- 
15). These mixed systems of worship under the pres- 
ent ecclesiastical heavens, the evidence seems to indi- 
cate that the children of the kingdom will come next 
in order according to Paul's statement; after the or- 
ganization of the new world government. Then they 
that are Christ's at His coming, of course the whole 
world is Christ's, but those with most light will be in 
order or first in order (1 Cor. xv. 22. 23). They will 
then soon be prepared to proclaim the glad tidings of 
great joy which shall be to all people (Luke iL 
10), this limit on our Father's free grace as proclaimed 
by many, is one of the stains on the robes of some 
honest, pious brethren that has prevented them from 
winning the prize of the high calling. Paul says, I 
therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as 
one that beateth the air. (1 Cor. ix, 26.) The nom- 
inal church recognize this age (world) as the Christian 
world, there is nothing Christ-like in material warfare. 
Jesus said unto Peter, put up thy sword into the 
sheath. (John xviii. 2.) But when the Lord Jesus re- 
turns He will bring His Father's sword to kill off a 
host of His enemies in the same manner as He killed 
Saul of Tarsus on the way to Damascus, (Acts xxvi. 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 31 

12-15). And the Lord will use the same kind of fire 
so as to make a sure kill of it, for it was Paul that said, 
our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. xii. 29.) 

Saul of Tarsus was a self-convicted murderer from 
his own testimony, that surely ought to be good evi- 
dence. Murderers are usually hard to kill in the man- 
ner Saul of Tarsus was killed, without the proper 
means at hand. But that consuming fire of our Fath- 
er's love was sufficient, it changes names as well as 
character. Paul the Apostle sounds so much softer 
and sweeter than Saul of Tarsus the persecutor, to the 
enlightened understanding. Paul the Apostle has been 
our greatest instructor in spiritual warfare, since he 
was killed on the way to Damascus (Acts xxii. 6-11). 
A great many good pious people believe that Paul 
was converted when he was struck down on the way to 
Damascus, I would rather believe that brother Paul 
had only as yet been convicted and convinced of his 
lost condition, for he said, what shall I do Lord, or 
what wilt Thou have me to do (Acts ix. 6). Then 
after he had received his sight, the spiritual, he said 
that he conferred not with flesh and blood (Gal. i. 16). 
He also said that he neither went to Jerusalem to see 
the Apostles. Paul well knew from that terrible ex- 
perience on the way to Damascus that instructions 
from the great teacher would get him out of trouble 
and darkness quicker than from any other source. 
Paul also said that Jesus was last seen by him. He 
says and last of all He was seen of me as of one born 
out of due time (1 Cor. xv. 8). And lhat he knew a 
man that was caught up to the third heaven, this is 
after he had been brought to the knowledge of the 
truth. It was regeneration that Paul needed after he 
had been convicted of his lost condition and he sought 



32 LOST AND FOUND. 

it diligently, but he says, by the grace of God I am 
what I am ( i Cor.xv. 10.) The Lord had instructed him 
of the mission that awaited at the time of his conviction, 
and that he must prepare for it. Death-bed conver- 
sion was out of the question in this case, it must be the 
same kind that Peter received after he had denied his 
Lord and Saviour. Peter was told by the Saviour to 
strengthen the brethren after he was converted (Luke 
xii. 32). We have no doubt of the objections that 
may have arisen before we arrived at this point, but 
we will endeavor to dispel this little misty fog. What 
communication has light with darkness (2 Cor. iv. 6, 
vi. 14) ? Let us see if we can find out more about it. 
The writer was several years previous to the creed re- 
vision announcements, in repudiating the dogmas for 
which the controversy has been over since, after I had 
inuvestigated our Father's Holy Word from a reason- 
able standpoint, I could not harmonize those dogmatic 
teachings with a Father's love. And I learned soon 
after I had expressed my views quite freely in con- 
nection with this new departure, that some of my for- 
mer and most intimate friends, including the pas- 
tor and his good help-meet of the congregation I was 
formerly connected with, deplored my condition. And 
my dear readers, I am still in that deplorable condition 
as those good pious brethren would call it, and that is 
why I am now about my Father's business. I also 
had a good methodist brother in one of the southern 
states tell me he was sorry to see me throwing my life 
away. After I had expressed some views connected 
wi<h this subject, however, he apologized immediately, 
which I suppose was somewhat soothing to his own 
conscience. And on another occasion when visiting 
the Sunday-school of the old congregation of which I 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 33 

was formerly a member, one brother made a special 
announcement, it would seem, for my benefit. In 
addressing the school at the close, he warned them to 
beware of a doctrine that was being advocated, that 
there would be another opportunity after this life for 
the unconverted. And he spoke with authority that 
there was no Scripture for such doctrine. This would 
indicate strong delusions through worldly wisdom, 
how about it to-day, my dear brethren, which have the 
lisfilt side of the controversy, the Creed Revisionists 
or the Calvinists of the dark ages? Endeavoring to 
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, we 
accepted these persecutions although we felt them 
keenly, yet we held our peace (Eph. iii. 3). To- him 
that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne 
even as I overcame and am set down with my Father in 
His throne (Rev. iii. 21). The writer's opinion is that 
there will be no radical changes in the Creed revision. 
The rulers of the darkness of this world have an eye 
to business and comprehend it not. (John i. 15.) (Eph. 
vi. 12.) This can be properly called the day of worldly 
wisdom (1 Cor. i. 19). However, the dogmatic re- 
ligions have been just as necessary to carry along the 
Father's plans, as the law and the prophets were for 
the Jewish, and former ages. The writer gave his sup- 
port to the nominal church system and its dogmatic 
teachings for a score or more years, and he has no 
regrets, because it was the best he could do according 
to his light at that time. It is first trie natural and 
afterwards the spiritual (1 Cor. xv. 46). As above 
stated the nominal church system has been as neces- 
sary as the law and the prophets in that day, but after 
they have accomplished their mission on the natural 



34 LOST AND FOUND. 

• plane, according as the Lord worketh all things after 
the counsel of His own will (Eph. i. n), then they 
must go down, light must supplant darkness. Man's 
natural condition develops destruction in the Father's 
due process of time as the light advances. In Adam 
all die, that is the natural destruction pronounced 
from the day thou eatest thereof (Gen. ii. 17). But 
in Christ all are made alive, this is the light that de- 
stroys that lost condition, but few there be that com- 
prehend it, especially in these last days of worldly 
wisdom. I heard a young college student of some 
sixteen years of age call his brother a Christer or as 
one of the Christers I understood from the conversa- 
tion, that his brother older was a member of one of the 
nominal church societies. This is called and recog- 
nized as the Christian age as I have already stated, 
but it would seem to be more appropriate to call it 
the civilizing and preparatory age, this is not belittling 
the Lord's work, but it would seem that worldly wis- 
dom claim too much, there is barely enough spirituality 
to civilize and prepare it for the next age (world). 
It is the next, the thousand year age (world) that the 
everlasting gospel is to be preached, (Rev. xiv. 6-8), 
by love and free grace, and to illustrate the advanced 
light which is the destroyer of superstition and dark- 
ness. I now present a little extract from a sermon 
delivered on the Creed revision controversy just pre- 
vious to the St. Louis convention of Presbyterians. 

It seems too late in the century to discuss these 
questions with the gravity which their awful import 
would inspire. They would be "awful" were it not 
that the modern spirit converts the ancient horror into 
an ill-concealed jest. Michael Wigglesworth's "Day 
of Doom" which was the chief solemnity of New Eng- 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 35 

land, two centuries ago, is a source of amusement to 
all who read it to-day. This pious poem of intermin- 
able length, after reporting the pleadings of the con- 
demned infants, who claim that they ought not to be 
punished for the sin of having been born, represents 
Christ, the Judge, as saying in reply : 

"A crime it is, 
Therefore in bliss 
You may not hope to dwell; 
But unto you I will allow 
The easiest room in hell." 

Two hundred and forty years ago the Calvinistic 
congregations of New England would listen to this 
poem with solemn awe, as in it, the poet-preacher of 
the old parish church in Maiden, Massachusetts, had 
embodied the Lord's truth as they and he thought, but 
to-day there is not a congregation in New England or 
in any other part of the country that would not find it 
difficult to suppress laughter at the pious or rather the 
impious absurdities of it. So far have the people 
•emerged from the capricious and grotesque wrath of 
God into the rational and steady light of His love. — 

Rexford. 

My brethren, what more could be said on such a 
condition of darkness, no conception whatever of our 
Father's love, but praise His holy name for the light 
that has already come to dispel darkness and supersti- 
tion. And I hope this grand olfl organization that 
was under such strong delusions may grow in grace 
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ, that said, Suffer little children to come unto 
me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of 
lieaven (Markx. 14; Luke xviii, 16). 



36 LOST AND FOUND. 

I usually speak with more freedom when compar- 
ing and speaking of those of my former connections. 
There are a great many good, pious people that don't 
seem to understand what our Father's love means, 
which is usually understood to be the love of God. It 
was because God our Father so loved the world (His 
children) that He gave His only begotten finished Son, 
that the rest of His children might learn the way of life. 
Dear reader do you remember what the Saviour said 
to Martha just previous to the raising of her brother 
Lazarus from the dead. I am the resurrection and 
the life (John xi. 25), this was before the Saviour's 
crucifixion, but as He was the living Word, He knew 
what the Father was able to do and would do. And 
the love our Father has shown in making this special 
sacrifice for this special purpose,, that the world, His 
children, might know the way, this is the narrow way 
and few there be that find it in this age (world), but 
they will all find it in the due process of the Father's 
time. Jesus said He came to seek and to save that 
which was lost (Luke xix. 10). If I should say 1 
loved God our Father and taught and professed to be- 
lieve that one of His children would finally be placed 
in such a condition as has been described according to 
John iv. 20, I would be a liar, and I would also be a 
liar if I taught and professed to believe that our 
Father would annihilate one of His children by extinc- 
tion ; and all liars are classed with the worst criminals 
in our Father's category of crime (Rev. xxii. 15). 
There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out 
fear ; because fear hath torment. He that f eareth is 
not made perfect in love (John iv. 18). The Saviour's 
sacrifice upon the cross was an example of love and 
hate. If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 37 

is a liar (John iv. 20), what I understand the Saviour 
to mean by hate is selfishness on the part of the natural 
man, for He says, greater love hath no man than this, 
that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 
xv. 13.) This is the important point I wish to impress 
upon the reader. The Fatherhood of God and the 
brotherhood of man. This is the imoprtant feat- 
ure in the Saviour's mission to introduce and to iden- 
tify His Father as our Father who art in heaven, then 
to think that so many of His children have formulated 
such horrible doctrines against our loving Father. It 
was the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of 
man that was lost sight of through the natural Adamic 
nature, the works of that old serpent the devil and 
Satan (Rev. xx. 2). That old dragon is doomed to be 
cast out and the time is near at hand. (Rev. xii. 9.) 
The present man made arrangements that are not in 
harmony with our Father's love and the mission of His 
Son our elder brother, because man in his unfinished 
condition is not capable of giving the proper inter- 
pretations to the gospels since the first falling away 
from the truth (2 Thess. ii. 3). See extract from the 
spirit of the Word on present truth, it is those of the 
Father's children that take Him at His word, that are 
permitted to understand the present truth. And I 
would not advise any of our Father's children to with- 
draw or leave their present organizations of worship 
without they are earnest truth seekers and able through 
spiritual insight to partake of the strong meat of the 
Word. It would seem that the majority of the relig- 
ious world are better satisfied with the milk of the 
Word and diluted at that. They can't stand it in hot 
doses as formerly administered, the hellfire procla- 
mation has been relegated it would seem, except in 



38 LOST AND FOUND. 

some of the rural districts, but I suppose it is still 
necessary in some localities to use a little of the di- 
luted adulterations of the Word (Heb. v. 12-14). It 
has the civilizing power, and there are still plenty of 
dark places that need light to prepare the inhabitants 
for the coming kingdom of our Lord, who tasted 
death for every man (Heb. ii. 9). I have no doubt 
but many of my readers have thought or said before 
reaching this point or chapter, Universalism, but I 
must say no, not as taught by that sect called Uni- 
versalists, but the end will be the same glorious uni- 
versal outcome. I believe in a terrible amount of hell- 
fire. I suppose I might be called a final restitutionist, 
as I believe in the final restitution of all things which 
God our Father hath spoken by the mouth of all His 
holy prophets since the world began (Acts iii. 21). 
Of course, there will be, no doubt, many good pious 
brethren that may. not understand what all things has 
reference to, it undoubtedly means something more 
than merely material things. How would a lost con- 
dition brought into the knowledge of the truth sound 
to a spiritual understanding? That is what Jesus said 
He came for, to seek and to save that which was lost 
(Luke xix. 10). I believe He was and is the Son of 
God our Father, and I believe He meant what He said. 
And let me say in connection with restitution as I inter- 
pret the Father's Word and meaning, as already stated, 
1 believe in a terrible amount of fire. It is necessary 
for our Father's warfare against evil. It is'nt the same 
kind of hellfire that many of our nominal sects have 
prepared for the future. Our God is a consuming fire 
(Heb. xii. 29). And our God. is our Father and the 
fire He uses kills His enemies and makes alive His 
friends the same as it did with Saul of Tarsus, and 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 39 

Paul the Apostle. The natural Adamic nature must be 
killed, and the God nature made alive to the fact, then 
that which is spiritual will occupy the kingdom within 
the tabernacle. If the meanness isn't all burned out in 
this physical life it will be necessary to finish after the 
resurrection, then it will be recognized as the second 
death (Rev. xx. 4-6). It is pretty generally under- 
stood that our Universalist brethren claim that the 
natural moral man is good enough with but few excep- 
tions. Of course, these brethren understand that the 
fire that destroyed Sodom was extinguished, died out 
for want of something to feed upon (Gen. xix. 24). 
There is no doubt, as a sect the Universalists are the 
Bible students. I have reference more specially to 
the ministers, but it seems they fail to comprehend the 
fire that was kindled at the Lord's first advent. Jesus 
said, I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will 
I, if it be already kindled (Luke xii. 49). This fire 
has been recognized by but few in this age (world). 
It was intended to burn slow until the time of the end 
of this age (world) . It was a fire especially to prepare 
His elect, the overcomers, they were and are the only 
ones that could recognize this special fire that was to 
prepare the bride to meet her Lord (Matt, xxv., John 
iii. 29). Those are the faithful that will be prepared 
to enter with the bridegroom and shall reign with 
Christ in His thrnoe (Rev. ii. 26). Rev. iii. 21. This- 
special class must be prepared by the fire of God's love 
which means to suffer the persecutions and some- 
times from members of their own household without 
resentment, this is surely drinking the cup of bitter- 
ness as the Saviour did. Brother Paul was also an 
example of those persecutions, it would seem that he 
received a double portion. But to him that overcometh 



40 LOST AND FOUND. 

will I grant to §it with me in my throne, even as I 
overcame and am set down with my Father in His 
throne (Rev. iii. 21). This seems plain. I cannot see 
where the nominal church system get their Gospel for 
reigning in this age, or that Christ has returned 
in like maner as He went away (Acts i. 10. 11). 
To be plain, my dear readers, the indications are 
that after that first falling away from the truth, as 
the Apostle Paul made mention of in (2 Thess. ii. 3), 
the first reorganizes under the beast must have got 
an extra supply of the diluted milk of the word of 
their own manufacture which has caused such a great 
variety of sects in the present nominal church system. 
The writer has partaken of this same diluted adul- 
terations in great quantities. Some of my old U. P. 
brethren served it before and after lunch on the first 
day of the week. They were good, conscientious, 
pious children, but they wanted to do all their busi- 
ness with our Father in one day out of seven, they did 
not seem to know much about God their Father which 
art in heaven. The writer, when quite a young man, 
did some special work for a prominent U. P. minister 
who owned a large stock farm, the family resid- 
on the same, which was about one mile from the village 
chapel. It was said of the minister's good helpmeet, 
that she would work all day and until midnight, then 
pray for morning to come, but I don't believe that story. 
They were good religious, pious people, and if pos- 
sible would not allow the morning or evening devo- 
tions to interfere with the labor department. Two 
score years back a working day meant from sun to 
sun or day light to dark, but I must confess and say of 
these good people that they were honorable and gave 
us plenty of good food and allowed us to dine with the 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 41 

family at the same table, nevertheless, they were close 
communionists at that time ; but they were not so par- 
ticular about material things, and the world has been 
bettered by their examples. At the same time, they 
kept their eyes on the golden calf, and the quicker the 
calf became an ox, the greater their desires would be 
for a pair, but they were living up to their present 
light at that time, and they shall be rewarded according 
as their work shall be. (Rev. xxii. n. 12.) 

These good people may be liable to disappoint- 
ments in the next age (world.) Those who have 
reigned under the delusions of the Beast or his Image 
and have lived deliciously and glorified themselves 
(Rev. xviii. 7-13. 10-15.) will be liable to get into the 
wrong pews. As we must repeat the truth, that it is 
Christ and the overcomers that are to occupy the 
throne after the Bride and Bridegroom have been 
united, the new cabinet organization established, then 
the process of freeing the living and the dead from 
prisons of darkness with the Father's everlasting and 
eternal fire of love and free grace (Heb. xii. 29. Rev. 
xx. 6). My dear readers this is the same kind of fire 
that our nominal brethren formerly proclaimed as a 
literal Hell fire. If they could have managed in some 
manner to have left off the literal impression it would 
have appeared more reasonable then within bounds of 
present light and truth. It is generally understood 
now even among the common people without educa- 
tion that Hell Hades is the grave rest for the Adamic 
nature (Dust thou art). This theme will be consid- 
ered in a later chapter. This leads to a thought I 
had considered and will make mention of it now. If 
any brethren expect to be guests as an organization at 
the great Marriage Supper they had better abandon 



42 LOST AND FOUND. 

such an idea as those are the ideas with others that are 
to be burned with the mystic buildings whose founda- 
tions are upon the sand of delusions. Let me tell you 
something about the wedding garment which are the 
words of the Saviour, and when the King came in to 
see the guests He saw there a man which had not on 
a wedding garment, and He said unto him, Friend 
how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding gar- 
ment, and the man was speechless (Matt. xxii. n. 
12). The elements of this world better be separated 
in this life. Paul the apostle calls it putting behind 
the things of this world. He also calls it dying to 
Sin. He says I die daily; this is death by regenera- 
tion, the second death (1 Cor. xv. 31). That means 
as I understand, to bid adieu to worldly attachments 
as has already been stated ; this separation in the next 
life after the resurrection will not be recognized as the 
second death. My dear brethren, if any of my read- 
ers understand God our Father's plan and purpose as 
here presented, and are in the race for the high call- 
ing, don't try to pass into the Elect Chamber prepared 
for the marriage as you may believe, and still have 
some of the ceremonial attachments that have not 
been eradicated for they will betray you sure. Of 
course they have been and are necessary for babes in 
Christ. Paul says, When I was a child I spake as a 
child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man 
I put away childish things (1 Cor. xiii. 10-11). Bet- 
ter go with a spiritual record, in fact, it is necessary to 
enter except in a case like that of the one that passed 
in without the wedding garment, and in such a case 
they would have to be cast out. What is the spiritual 
meaning of outer darkness? I would answer accord- 
ing to my understanding to be placed amongst a world 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 4S 

of heathen peoples, abominations, (Rev. xxii. 15). 
For instance, call to memory the conditions of Miss 
Helen M. Stone and Madame K. S. Tsilka, those 
harmless, defenceless missionaries, who were com- 
pelled to dwell among the darkness of this world for 
just a few months. Let me repeat our Father's crim- 
inal category that you may comprehend the depths of 
this darkness, for without are dogs and sorcerers and 
whoremongers and murderers and idolators and who- 
soever loveth and maketh a lie (Rev. xxii. 15). Lov- 
eth and maketh a lie would seem to indicate deception, 
false pretense, including all things misleading. My 
dear brethren, isn't this class well represented at this 
time? What is machine worship? Where is the 
Golden Calf? Who are the idolators; draw your own 
conclusion. My brethren why not make our callings 
and election sure rather than be cast out for want of 
light. Then do our first works (Rev. ii. 5). Surely 
this would seem like coming up through great tribu- 
ulation (Rev. vii. 13-17). Why not be judged in this 
life? Jesus said now is the judgment of this world. 
He represented the world to open up the way of life 
everlasting. Now shall the prince of this world be 
cast out (the enmity) ; this was overcoming the world 
(John xii. 31). For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his- 
own order, Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that 
are Christ's at His coming (1 Cor. xv. 22. 23). O, 
that the world (His children) would take our Father 
at His word. Since I have learned what our Father's- 
love means I cannot see where there could be a limit 
put on our Father's power to bring all things into sub- 
jection to His only begotten finished Son for He must 
reign till he hath put all enemies under His feet (1 



44 LOST AND FOUND. 

Cor. xv. 25). Who are the anti-Christs ? It does 
seem to me that every organization that have a limit 
on our Father's power is anti-Christ. But of course, 
our loving Father will have mercy upon all, for He 
hath concluded them all in unbelief that He might have 
mercy upon all. (Rom. xi. 32.) That is the subject 
under consideration as to the Savior's mission. He 
said He came to seek and save that which was lost. 
(Luke xix. 10.) Jesus tasted death for every man. 
(Heb. xi. 9.) The great mass of the religious world 
have been confused in regard to go preach the gospel 
to all the world with that of the special Elect calling 
for the selection of His saints, the overcomers (Matt, 
xxiv. 14. Rom. ix. 11. xi. 5-29. 1 Cor. i. 26. Eph. i. 18. 
1 Peter xi. 9). Paul said even so then at this time 
also there is a remnant according to the election of 
grace. At the closing of the Jewish age all those 
gathered in during the preaching of John the Baptist, 
Christ and immediate followers, were the wheat fruit? 
of the Jewish age. Jesus said look on the fields for 
they are white already to harvest (John iv. 35). This 
was hard to be understood because of its spiritual 
meaning. And now we are nearing the close of an- 
other harvest of far greater magnitude ; don't under- 
stand me to mean the general, for that is to follow 
after the Elect is garnered. But the world is ignorant 
of these facts, and no doubt the allwise Father in- 
tended it thus. These truths are due now to be un- 
derstood by His servants. But surface readers that 
read to suit creed and dogmas fail to get the spiritual 
interpretations as they are spiritually discerned. The 
signs of the times indicate to the truth seekers the ap- 
proaching fulfillment of the parables and prophecies. 
The truth seekers are patiently waiting and watching 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 45 

for such indications as foretold by the Saviour of the 
world. The world is fulfilling to-day and has been 
for some time the warnings of the Saviour in Matt, 
xxiv. The results will be more than mere rumors of 
wars at the close of the times of the Gentiles (Luke 
xxi. 24). The Saviour of the world has made it plain 
enough for those that take Him at His word. A 
great many of our Father's children object to calling 
Jesus the Saviour of the world according to their 
creeds and dogmas. My dear brethren, there is, I am 
happy to say, an abundance of Scripture for the spirit- 
ual understanding to comprehend that Jesus is the 
Saviour of the whole world without limit. The 
Savior of the world prayed for those that betrayed and 
crucified the lamb of God, and said Father forgive 
them for they know not what they do (Luke xxiii. 
34). I would ask any of our Father's children if they 
believed that prayer offered by the lamb of God would 
not be answered as petitioned for. And I would es- 
pecially ask this question of our brethren who believe 
in long prayers and plenty of them and also teach to 
believe in the doctrines of everlasting torment and an- 
nihilation. If they believed their prayers would be 
answered in preference to our Father's beloved Son 
in whom He was well pleased (Luke iii. 22). Jesus 
said for I came down from heaven not to do my own 
will but the will of Him that sent me (John vi. 38). 
39th verse, He says that of the things the Father 
hath given me I should lose nothing. The title of 
my subject is the Son of Man came to seek and to save 
that which was lost (Luke xix. 10). I can't under- 
stand why it is that multitudes of our Father's chil- 
dren can twist the Saviour's words into such terrible 
meanings. Of course if they don't believe what He 



46 LOST AND FOUND. 

said it don't make much difference what they believe, 
but it is their bad doctrines they teach to believe. I 
believe the Saviour said what He meant, and that is 
why I am now about my Father's business. I believe 
what He said, because it seems reasonable to my un- 
derstanding and I would like the whole world to be- 
lieve Him without money and without price. That is 
the extent of any selfishness on my part. Our Father 
has multitudes of children that class themselves as the 
whosoevers. The nominal church system which is 
usually understood to mean the orthodox majority 
who profess to believe and teach that whosoever does 
not take some one of the routes marked out by this or 
that sect under said system, will be lost as they mildly 
put it now in these latter days. They fail to under- 
stand what Jesus came for. He said the Son of Man 
came to seek and save that which was Lost (Luke 
xix. 10). He didn't say He came to save men from 
"being Lost, when they are in that condition already 
through the Adamic nature. We occasionally hear of 
some person who claim they have no relatives as they 
have no record of lineage or it had been lost; this is 
their conscientious conclusions on the natural plane. 
Now this is the condition of the w T orld to-day on the 
spiritual plane and has been since the fall of the first 
pair, and this is what Jesus said He came for, to intro- 
duce them to His Father as their and our Father 
which are in heaven. But a majority of the world 
fail to take our Father at His word. Men on 
the natural plane fail to comprehend the Father's love 
because of the former dogmatic teachings under this 
world church system of delusions. This was the case 
with many of the forefathers not being able to discern 
between the double calling we may say. The general 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 47 

call was to go preach the gospel to all the world, which 
is being done ; then the high calling of the Elect, the 
overcomers who are really the whosoevers and they 
may be found scattered among many of the sects in the 
nominal church system. But we still have the Scribes 
and Pharisees, those blind guides who strain at a gnat 
and swallow a camel (Matt, xxiii. 24). Those are the 
blind guides who through their own darkness are still 
dumping their poor blind victims into that same old 
ditch. Let them alone, they be blind leaders of the 
blind (Matt. xv. 14). This is that great gulf fixed in 
the minds of darkness. If they would take the Sav- 
iour at His word the gulf w T ould soon disappear. And 
He said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the 
prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one 
rose from the dead (Luke xvi. 26-31). My brethren 
the whosoevers are the overcomers that have been 
fully described as the Lord's faithful servants, the 
saints that take the Saviour at His w T ord and proclaim 
it regardless of the scoffs and criticisms even to the 
death if need be, for the truth as it is in Christ Jesus 
our Lord. There is no fear in love, but perfect love 
casteth out fear, because fear hath torment. He that 
feareth is not made perfect in love. (1 John iv. 18.) 
Just as long as the world accepts the interpretations of 
surface readers as teachers and leaders that great gulf 
will have the same depth of appearance to their dark- 
ened imaginations. It is evident that whenever the 
word whosoever is used, was for the purpose to quick- 
ening the incentives of His willing servants to search 
the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal 
life and they are they which testify of me (John v. 
29). Truth seekers are the whosoevers and the who- 
soevers are the overcomers that dig for the hidden 



48 LOST AND FOUND. 

treasures themselves. There is a class of cowards 
that consult some formulated creed, priest or pastor. 
They do so because they are not made perfect in love; 
perfect love casteth out fear, (i John iv. 18.) My 
Brethren dig and search for the pearl of great price 
and when you secure that perfect love, the pearl is 
yours, and you will want the whole world to have it, 
because if the Son therefore shall make you free ye 
shall be free indeed (John viii. 36). Jesus said I do 
nothing of myself but as my Father hath taught me 
so I speak (John viii. 28). The Lord worketh all 
things after the counsel of His own will. (Eph. i. 
11.) To be free indeed is to come out from under 
the ceremonial yoke. Try and forget about that free 
agency tool. It will do on the animal side of the 
question. Put on a seamless garment patterned after 
the righteousness of the crucified Son of our Father. 
This seamless garment must be white and without 
spot or wrinkle and without blemish (Eph. v. 27). 
Those are the conditions that will be strictly adhered 
to, for those that are in the ranks of the high calling 
we have already described outer darkness, but it will 
bear repetition. It simply means to be compelled to 
mingle with the balance of the world of darkness until 
their garments are made white through the process of 
light and knowledge of the truth, as it is in Christ 
Jesus the Saviour of the world. This process of judg- 
ment unto righteousness follows the first resurrection 
of Christ the first fruits the Elect. I believe and we 
have the Gospel for it, that there will be multitudes of 
the Father's children that will pass from darkness into 
that marvelous light very soon after their resurrec- 
tion. Many have lived devout lives according to their 
light ; on such the second death will be light, but they 



THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD, ETC. 49 

must come to judgment with the balance of the chil- 
dren of the kingdom who were under the ceremonial 
yoke in this life. The judgment described in (Matt. 
xxv.) is indicative of this fact. The sheep and the 
goats is only illustrative of the double life man lives in 
the flesh. The enmity and the God nature, the goats 
are the dogmatic delusions which must be destroyed 
by the second death. Then those with most light and 
fewer goats will be first in order according to the 
Father's plan. They will soon participate in helping 
to spread the glad tidings of great joy which shall 
be unto all people — (Luke xi. 10.) The glad tidings 
of the new kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ who will occupy the throne of His kingdom 
with His Elect cabinet body to bless a Lost world, and 
the kings of the earth will bring their glory and honor 
into it. (Rev. xxi. 24.) This will be the restitu- 
tion of all things which God our Father hath spoken by 
the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world be- 
gan (Acts iii. 21.) the glorious fulfillment of our 
Father's plan and purpose prepared from and previous 
to the foundation of the world. In the beginning was 
tlie Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word 
was God our Father (John i. 1.). 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF MAN. 

A never dying soul to save and jit it for the skies - — 
as sung by the sovl-saving nominal chnrch system. 

This is the important thought to be considered and 
to the writer's understanding, unravels the mystery of 
man's lost condition. 

THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 

The Lord worketh all things after the counsel of 
His own will (Eph. i. n). And thus it is that many 
important truths are not revealed until the world has 
evolved to the time for their proclamation, not in the 
sense that the world is ready to accept them as the re- 
jection of Jesus at His first advent is in evidence. In 
presenting this clipping and others to- follow enables 
the writer to present his views and theory on a similar 
line of thought which is confirmed by the word of 
truth. 

We first present a clipping from the Pittsburg De- 
spatch, the date we failed to get at the time, but think 
it apperead during the last week in February, 1902. 
This little extract explains sufficiently for the writer to 
understand, but there is nothing definite as to proofs 
by the Word. However, this clipping contains all the 
writer knows in regard to the sermon referred to. 

DR. PARKHURST ON DEATH OF THE SOUL. 

Does the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst disagfee 
with the Presbyterian creed, which by orthodox inter- 

50 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 51 

preters is believed to declare the soul to be immortal, 
as his sermon yesterday seemed to indicate? Dr. 
Parkhurst's sermon has caused a decided stir among 
churchmen all over the city, and especially among the 
Presbyterians. His own congregation was startled 
by his radical views. Among other things he said: 
"It appears to be imagined that if one can get past 
physical death without his soul ceasing to exist, the 
everlasting duration of his soul's existence is thereby 
insured. That is taking a good deal for granted. 
There is nothing in Scripture that encourages us to 
feel that a soul can be kept from dying any more than 
a body, unless it is taken care of. We may be immor- 
tal, but if we prove to be such, it will be because we 
have succeeded in being such. It may be that eternity 
is the normal period of a soul's life. So three score 
and ten or four score years is the normal period of life 
of the body, but a great many bodies die before that 
time. A body that does not have excellent care is al- 
most certain to die a good while before. A soul that 
does not have good care is similarly likely to die a 
good while before eternity ends." 

The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst although allied yet, I sup- 
pose, with the nominal church system, I don't say this 
to belittle one of the Father's grand civilizers, but to 
to make special mention that his work has been a 
power for good in the world. And now it may be, 
since the brother has advanced a step in the dawning 
light, our nominal brethren, not all of them, will con- 
demn him as a heretic, but as the day of heresy trials 
is almost a thing of the past, the Reverend brother will 
possibly not be compelled to hide his light under a 
bushel. I will say before presenting my views 
upon this most vital truth, as I understand it to 



52 LOST AND FOUND. 

be, that these views were obtained by searching the 
Father's Holy Word, and have accepted no man's 
word or writings except the Father's Word, proved 
them to be in harmony with the Scriptures as I under- 
stand them. As I have no knowledge in the sciences 
of worldly wisdom from a theological and educational 
standpoint, Paul the Apostle, in his defense before 
King Agrippa was accused, charged by Festus that too 
much learning had made him mad (Acts xxvi. 24). 
The writer has been accused or charged of having the 
same malady but not from the same cause that pro- 
duced it. 

The first record we have of the soul is when our 
Father commenced the process of creating man, usu- 
ally understood as the creation of man, as though he 
was finished when he became a living soul. God our 
Father said, let us make man in our image and like- 
ness (Gen. i. 26, ii. 7), and man became a living soul. 
It would seem that he was a dead soul just previous 
to the first breath that started up the animal life, then 
he became a living soul. I believe and expect to pro- 
duce the evidence to show T that our Father meant it to 
be understood in the due process of time, that image 
and likeness was to be of His own nature when fin- 
ished. Christ represents the first finished man after the 
Father's own likeness (John xiv. 7-10), especially 
after His resurrection. But His condition was the 
same before as to righteous character. I would rather 
not believe that our Father had any resemblance of the 
"first Adamic man as represented in a figure before the 
second step in the process had been taken. The first 
part or step in the process ended when He became a 
living soul. Then it was that Adam who was the figure 
'of Him that was to come (Rom. v. 14), could name 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 53« 

the beasts of the field by the same process that Balaam's * 
donkey could. (Numbers xxii. 28-31.) If the first 
Adamic man had been a completed man, it would not 
have been necessary for our Father to have taken the 
second step in the process and so on until finished, as 
the perfect man Christ Jesus. I believe and will pre- 
sent the evidence, according to my understanding, that 
the deep sleep of Adam and the second step in the 
process in the creation, and the birth of mother Eve, 
the woman, was as miraculously performed as that of 
the Father's only especially begotten Son. And I be- 
lieve from the evidence to follow, that mother Eve, the 
woman, was the Father's first especially begotten 
daughter (to be traced by lineage), after the Father^ 
own nature, (not as finished), as she was the mother 
of all living (Gen. iii. 20). It is generally understood 
and accepted that Adam as the figure of Him that: 
was to come, was the parent of physical death. Jesus 
said, let the dead bury the dead. (Matt. viii. 22.) The 
child at one day old, is one day nearer physical death 
and the grave, than when born. 

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all 
be made alive (1 Cor. xv. 22). But every man in his 
own order (1 Cor. xv. 23). Jesus also said, call no 
man Father upon the earth (Matt, xxiii. 9). It is 
evident to my understanding that Adam contained none 
of the God nature considered from a singular point of 
view, before the woman was made helpmeet. After 
the two were called one flesh, and the evidence would 
indicate that Adam considered from a plural stand- 
point, was the embodiment of his satanic majesty. It 
was the woman that contained the reasoning, discrim- 
inative intelligence which is of the Fatner's own na- 
ture, and it was and is through the woman that God 



54 LOST AND FOUND. 

the Father imparts His nature to His children, but that 
is not for us to say how. Then, if my theory be cor- 
rect, which I believe to be from the evidence to follow, 
the soul of Adam before the two were made and called 
one flesh, was the animal instinct without the reason- 
ing faculty, and the instinct (soul), and the God nature 
are blended while contained in the earthly tabernacle 
during physical life. Thus the soul and the inherent 
God nature are in this blended relation to give His 
children personal identity, and there are three that 
bear witness in the earth (the earthly tabernacle), the 
spirit, the water and the blood and these three agree in 
one (i John v. 8). This blended condition will exist 
until man is finished. Man includes any of our Fath- 
er's children. Jesus said, suffer little children to come 
unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the king- 
dom of God (Luke xviii. 16) ; but Jesus represented the 
first finished man after His resurrection, although the 
enmity was in subjection to the Saviour from the first 
to the cross, as He was without sin. But one of the 
soldiers with a spear pierced His side and forthwith 
came out blood and water (John xix. 34). Jesus was 
then in the sleep of Paradise, and when Mary had rec- 
ognized Jesus after He had been quickened from the 
death sleep, He saith unto her, touch me not ; for I 
am not yet ascended to my Father, but go tell my 
brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father 
and your Father, and to my God and your God (John 
xx. 17). This evidence is conclusive as to the Father- 
hood of God and the brotherhood of man. The Sa- 
viour said, go tell my brethren. My dear readers, that 
was meant for you and me just the same, notwithstand- 
ing the claims of the pharasaical whosoevers. Paul in 
addressing those idol worshipers of Mars Hill, de- 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL, 55 

clares unto them, that in God we live and move and 
have our being, for we also are His offspring, foras- 
much then, as we are the offspring of God, we ought 
not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or sil- 
ver or stone, graven by art and man's device. And 
the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now 
commandeth all men everywhere to repent (Acts xvii. 
28-30). My dear brethren, it is a blessed thing to be 
able to identify our Father's children as our breth- 
ren and neighbors, Jesus was the first and only 
finished man seen with mortal eyes, and then not recog- 
nized until He had made Himself known. It is evident 
that He had not yet been glorified with that radiant 
glory that was demonstrated afterwards when He ap- 
peared to Saul of Tarsus on the way to Damascus. 
The brilliancy of that glorious light was as demon- 
strated too brilliant for mortal vision to behold. Is it 
any wonder that Paul insisted on revealing that won- 
derful vision (Acts xxii) ? The soul (instinct) pre- 
dominates during physical existence with but few ex- 
ceptions, and those are described in the eleventh chap- 
ter of Hebrews up to the time of the Saviour's first 
advent. Howbeit that was not first which was spirit- 
ual, but that which is natural, and afterwards that 
which is spiritual (i Cor. xv. 46). And so it is writ- 
ten, the first man Adam was made a living soul. The 
last man Adam which is finished was made a quicken- 
ing spirit. Jesus represents 'the Fatherhood of God 
as well as the brotherhood of man (1 Cor. xv. 45-46). 
For as the woman is of the man, even so is man also 
by the woman, but all things are of God our Father 
(1 Cor. xi. 12). As we have borne the image of the 
earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly 
(1 Cor. xv. 49). This evidence from Paul the Apostle 



56 LOST AND FOUND. 

who also said he conferred not with flesh and blood 
after he had been convicted by the fire of his Father's 
love through His Son on the way to Damascus. And 
again he says, for this cause shall a man leave his 
father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, 
and they two shall be one flesh. (Eph. v. 31.) To- 
my understanding this has been one of the hidden 
mysteries of the soul and spirit in connection with 
man's lost condition, which the Apostle Paul says is 
hard to be understood (Matt. xiii. 11, Eph. v. 32). 
For the benefit of those of our brethren that have 
special arrangements for saving souls, hear again what 
the Apostle Paul says : The word of God our Father 
is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged 
sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and 
spirit (Heb. iv. 12). This is evident to my under- 
standing, that soul and spirit are not one and the same^ 
as the mass of the religious world have believed and 
taught. The Apostle understood what he was talking 
about. If soul and spirit can be divided, it would seem 
reasonable to believe that they might be divided in 
the due process of time. Let every soul be subject unto 
the higher powers for there is no power but of God 
our Father (Rom. xiii. 1). This is evidence that the 
soul is from below on the animal plane (John iii. 31). 
Jesus said, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto 
death (Matt. xiv. 34). I believe Jesus said what 
He meant, that His soul, the animal fear, re- 
sisted to the death, although it had always been in 
subjecion, yet, the Saviour of the world was tempted 
by the enmity (instinct) even unto death, because the 
prince of this world the enmity is judged (John xvi. 
11). Now is the judgment of this world. The Sa- 
viour represents the whole world in this last struggle,. 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 57 

now shall the prince of this world be cast out, that old 
serpent called the devil (John xii. 31, Rev. xii. 9, xx. 
2), be separated from the spirit? Jesus said, Father 
into Thy hands I commend my Spirit (Luke xxiii. 46). 
This is certainly plain to my understanding, the fol- 
lowing may be a stumbling stone to some of the Fath- 
er's children who are well advanced in the dawning 
light, and I will give you the Saviour's own languaeg; 
And fear not them which kill the body, but rather fear 
Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in 
hell (Hades), the grave, doesn't say anything about 
destroying the spirit, the God nature (Matt. x. 28). 
Any man could kill another unregenerated man as 
Adam represented in a figure, and that is as far as 
man could go according to the Saviour's statement. 
One animal may kill another, and all life ends then and 
there, which I believe would have been the case with 
Adam from a singular point of view, as Adam was 
considered previous to the second step in the process 
of creation before the two were called one flesh, but 
he was the only exception as described. Therefore 
one man may kill another man's earthly tabernacle, 
but the soul must be destroyed by another process as 
Christ represented. Paul the Apostle explained the 
process to my understanding and satisfaction. 

Peter could not have been a representative for fin- 
ishing, as the Saviour and Paul were just previous to 
their change. Peter was not yet converted, regener- 
ated, he was a coward up to the time the Lord was be- 
trayed. There is no fear in love, but perfect love 
casteth out fear; because fear hath torment, he that 
feareth is not made perfect in love (1 John iv. 18.), this 
is the condition of an unconverted man. Hear what 
the Saviour says to Peter the day of His betrayal, 



58 LOST AND FOUND.. 

when thou are converted, strengthen thy brethren 
(Luke xxii. 32). Peter had been an intimate fol- 
lower and friend of the Savior for three and one-half 
years, and yet not converted. But we have an abund- 
ance of evidence to show that Peter was ready to be 
finished soon ofter the Saviour's resurrection. Finished 
as I understand to mean, to be made perfect in love, 
perfect love casteth out fear (1 John iv. 18). Hear 
what Paul the Apostle has to say about this perfect 
love that casteth out fear; for I am now ready to be 
offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course;, 
I have kept the faith (2 Tim. iv. 6-8). This repre- 
sents a finished course in regeneration, a graduated 
conversion. The second birth, physical death, is the 
finishing for all those that reach this graduated con- 
dition in this life, all others will not obtain this con- 
dition until after their resurrection of soul and spirit 
from (Hades), the grave, from the paradise of sleep. 
Then the unregenerated will be quickened into con- 
sciousness and into the presence of the Lord and also 
into the presence of that same kind of fire that Saul of 
Tarsus came in contact with on the way to Damascus. 
Paul the Apostle realized what kind of fire was used, 
for it was Paul that said : Our God is a consuming fire 
(Heb. xii. 29). I believe my interpretations are truths 
now due to be understood, and that I am permitted to 
make them known, and as Paul says, I speak with per- 
mission, not by command (1 Cor. vii. 6). 

Now, I want to call the reader's attention to some 
of the Saviour's last words upon the cross. When 
Jesus therefore, saw His mother and the disciple 
standing by whom He loved, not because He didn't 
love the world and the other disciples the same, but 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 59 

the beloved John seemed to be the only one of the 
twelve that had been regenerated, He saith unto His 
mother, Woman, behold thy Son. Then He said to the 
disciple, Behold thy mother. Wonderful words are 
these. But the beloved John understood the porten- 
tentous significance of His words and from that hour 
that disciple took her unto his own home (John xix. 
26. 2j). It is evident that the beloved John was the 
only disciple of the twelve, up to this special occasion, 
that had been regenerated. This announcement may 
surprise many, but the. depth of significance is in the 
27th verse, when Jesus says unto the beloved John r 
behold thy mother. She was the mother, the earthly 
parent of the Father's only begotten Son, the first fin- 
ished man for this special occasion. Let these two 
most vital and important events pass before your spir- 
itual vision, the birth of the first woman, mother Eve, 
the mother of all living (Gen. iii. 20) ; and the birth of 
the first finished man, the resurrection and life. The 
Father's first begotten daughter, the first to impart the 
Father's nature. The first begotten Son, who came to 
make known the fact, with all the quickening power. 
He said, I am come that they might have life and that 
they might know that they His brethren contained the 
Father's nature and knew it not, and that they might 
have life more abundantly (John x. 10). Surely, to be 
made acquainted with the fact is the abundance of evi- 
dence that the lost is found. This seems reasonable 
and might be accepted by many even on the natural 
plane, but to have life more abundantly must be by 
regeneration. A graduated conversion born again, 
born of the spirit ,the enmity destroyed. A prophet 
shall the Lord your God raise up, and it shall come to 
pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet 



60 LOST AND FOUND. 

shall be destroyed from among the people (Acts iii. 
22. 23). The soul that sinneth it shall die (Ezek. xviii. 
.4). When the wicked man turneth away from his 
wickedness, he shall save his soul alive (Ezek. xviii. 
2j), to save a soul is to kill it and make it alive to the 
fact. We have already described the death of the 
soul before and after physical death. Regeneration is 
the process of destroying the enmity before physical 
death or in other words, when the soul, the enmity, 
the carnal mind, is brought into harmony, subdued to 
the higher God nature, that is death to the soul to my 
understanding of the truth. This would be saving the 
soul from the second death after the resurrection. It 
is evident that Paul represented the second death by 
-fire in connection with his conversion and regeneration 
similar to all that must be brought into the knowledge 
of the truth in the age (world) to come. The Apostle 
says, and last of all He (Jesus) was seen of me also, as 
of one born out of due time ( 1 Cor. xv. 8). With such 
experience he could testify, if in this life only we have 
hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable (1 
Cor. xv. 19). Paul was also an example of wicked 
men saved by grace (1 Cor. xv. 10). He understood 
what judgment unto righteousness meant, and such 
evidence is worthy of consideration. Another thought 
in connection with soul and spirit, that may be a con- 
solation to many in regard to the feeble minded, idiocy 
and insanity. My conclusions from all the evidence I 
have examined, indicate that the soul and body, the 
animal nature within the earthly tabernacle, is respons- 
ible for all the trouble. Howbeit that was not first 
which is spiritual, but that which is natural and after- 
wards that which is spiritual (1 Cor. xv. 46). Is there 
an instance in the Gospels wherein the Saviour of the 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 61 

world failed to restore any defect from any cause ? My 
dear brethren, that was included in the Saviour's mis- 
sion to give to the world examples of His power, and 
we have the promises that the thousand year age is set 
apart for that special purpose to restore all things, and 
the indications are, from the signs of the times, as well 
as from the chronology, that the time is near at hand. 
That glorious day is dawning. They brought to Him a 
dumb man possessed with a devil and when the devil 
was cast out, the dumb man spake (Matt. ix. 32, 33), 
after the evil, the enmity was subdued, the inherent 
God nature spake. First the natural and afterwards 
the spiritual (1 Cor. xv. 46). Then was brought unto 
Him, one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb, and 
He healed him, and the dumb both spake and saw 
(Matt. xii. 22). This is an example of our Father's 
power through His Son, and it would seem to indicate 
that the whole animal nature w T as the result of this 
combination of resistance to the God nature and un- 
doubtedly was from the records. But this resistance 
must be swallowed up in victory by the inherent God 
nature as in this case. The seed of the woman shall 
bruise the serpent's head (Gen. iii. 15), by the unlim- 
ited power of the Saviour of the whole world. Dear 
reader, if you have any doubts as to our Father's power 
to bring all things into subjection to His Son by love 
and free grace, read carefully upon the healing power 
of the Saviour and notice the development of the in- 
herent God nature after the evil had been subdued, 
which is evidence sufficient of the restoration of all 
things to perfection, spoken by the mouth of all God's 
holy prophets since the world began (Acts iii. 21). 
Under the title of this chapter woman has been given 
pre-eminence amongst mankind, her divine right by 



62 LOST AND FOUND. 

inheritance, the evidence has been conclusive that 
woman is divinely higher on the spiritual plane than 
man. It has been sneeringly said that the churches in 
the nominal system are made up of weak-minded men, 
women and children. Such remarks come only from 
the natural animal man on the unregenerated plane. 
And how unconsciously man's illustrations of angelic 
forms are of women and children. And the evil one 
is represented by man in a figure with horns like a 
beast. Man has ignored woman's divine right with 
others less important. Through all the ages with but 
few exceptions, until civilization through evolution has 
recognized her eligibility, and she is bravely throwing 
off the bondage of tyranny with that power of her 
mighty inherent intellect. The first shall be last, and 
the last first is God's plan. It is the natural 
and afterwards the spiritual (i Cor. xv. 46). It seems 
that I have presented sufficient evidence to substantiate 
my argument from first to last, as I have already con- 
sumed more than double the space anticipated when 
introducing my subject. I will now introduce a few 
extracts from authors, many years my seniors in pro- 
claiming the truths that have been and that are now 
due to be understood as the signs of the times indicate 
to the truth seekers who are waiting and wtaching for 
such indications as foretold by the Saviour, apostles 
and prophets. 

The first extract is God our Father's second things 
— woman's pre-eminence verified from the plan of the 
ages, by John H. Paton, author Day Dawn and the 
Perfect Day, Almont, Mich. 

The second extract is from a Book on Scripture 
Fire by Mrs. P. A. Krise, Lynchburg, Va. 

The third extract, Present Truth, from the Spirit 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 63 

of the Word, published by A. P. Adams, author of 
Bible Harmony, Beverly, Mass. 

At Last. The Paradise of Sleep, by Helen Hart 
Woodworth. 

FIRST EXTRACT. 

GOD'S SECOND THINGS WOMAN PRE-EMINENT. 

Whosoever can see this great gospel fact, that 
Christ stood in the same to the race for regeneration, 
as that in which Adam stood for generation ; and that 
as all the downward career of man was wrought in 
Adam, so that all were sure to follow him down, so 
all his upward career was wrought even "finished," 
in Christ so that all are sure to follow him up ; — will 
see not only that all may be saved, but all must be 
.saved in due time. The principle involved holds the 
mind to a clear and definite faith and hope. It is the 
same as the relation of the seed to the crop. He is 
the seed, and all mankind are the crop. The work 
finished in Him for all mankind is the gospel at the 
root, or in the acorn ; and the work to be carried out in 
all, by Him, is the gospel at the top, or in the mighty 
Oak. God seeing the end from the beginning, and 
telling the last things first, shows that all shall be 
blessed in Him; giving all a well-grounded hope of a 
resurrection out of this death-state, into a life that is 
life indeed, by Him, and in His way, who is the resur- 
rection and the life. 

Let us look briefly at the fact that Christ was made 
of woman. We have already seen that in the highest 
or spiritual sense Christ was by the heavenly mother, 
the Jerusalem above even as Isaac was by Sarah, the 
wife of him who in the allegory represents God the 
Father, even thus it can be truly said that Christ was 



64 LOST AND FOUND. 

made of woman — the regenerative, motherhood prin- 
ciple in the nature of God. But we need not because 
of this belittle the other or earthly side of this truth, 
stated by Paul, that Christ was "made of a woman, 
made under the law, to redeem them that were under 
the law." (Gal. iv. 4-5.) Indeed, the manifestation 
of the heavenly truth on the earthly plane, instead of 
being out of place, is in perfect keeping with the com- 
mon Bible method. 

There is a simple fact, bearing upon this, that 
shows the spirit of progression in God's revealed plan. 
The second Adam, even on the earthly side of his 
being, was better than the first Adam, because he was 
made by the same direct divine agency and power, and 
of better material. The fact is this ; Adam was made 
of the dust of the earth, woman was made of the man 
and Christ was made of woman. Even there the sec- 
ond creation was higher than the first, and the second 
Adam was made of the second creation. 

It is perfectly safe to say that woman is better than 
man. It means something that God did not make 
woman of dust, but of living man, and that He there- 
fore did not breathe into her nostrils the breath of life 
to make her live, and it is a fundamental gospel prin- 
siple that the seed of the woman shall bruise (or 
crush) the serpent's head — (Gen. iii. 15). That wo- 
man is greater, and capable of rising higher than 
man, is proved by the fact that when she sinks, she 
sinks lower ; if crazed she is more desperate. Her na- 
ture has a wider range, the higher the point from 
which anything falls, the deeper it sinks into the mire. 

Woman is doubtless more spiritual in her capac- 
ities than man. It is not an evidence of weakness on 
her part that the majority engaged in church work are 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 65 

women. She is more intuitive than man in her ap- 
prehension of truth. She feels deeply and deals with 
the depeer and finer elements in human hearts. Wo- 
man has ruled even when kept down by brutal force 
and cruel laws. In the home, especially in the train- 
ing of her children, her influence has been superla- 
tively great. She has molded the minds of the men, 
even, who have gone forth to do the work and to fight 
the battles of life and has inspired them for patient 
endurance and deeds of noblest daring. The grand- 
est men have attributed their success to their noble 
mothers, and in the church and even in the state, her 
power has been greatly felt — sometimes, perhaps, 
more felt than acknowledged : and in the face of all 
man-made laws and limitations. Superior to all the 
many obstacles that have hindered her, she is coming 
to the front, proving that she has God-given faculties 
which men have ignored for many important positions 
in life. In some respects, certainly in the great moral 
reform movemeuts of our day, woman is taking the 
lead and men are being constrained to follow. 

Woman has been the greater sufferer in the devel- 
opment and history of this sin-cursed race. That she 
has been more self-sacrificing in affliction and more 
patient in trouble than man, will hardly be denied. 
But as she has suffered more, will not her reward be 
greater? Does not suffering develop sympathy? 
And will she not therefore be fitted for the higher 
place in Christ's kingdom of grace and saving love? 
Man need not be troubled about this. He will have all 
for which he is prepared, and more than that would be 
a curse to him; a just and merciful arrangement will 
obtain. But we need not be surprised if, even in this, 



66 LOST AND FOUND. 

the "first shall be last, and the last first," and "the 
elder shall serve the younger." — Extract from Day 
Dawn by I. H. Paton. 

SECOND EXTRACT. 
SCRIPTURE FIRE. 

The Immortality of the Soul. 

The doctrine of endless fire is founded on the Im- 
mortality of the Soul. It has been slightingly said 
that anything can be proven by the Bible, but the 
Soul's Immortality cannot be read therein, nor proven 
thereby. This may be a startling statement, but nev- 
ertheless it is true. Scripture declares, "God only 
hath immortality" (i Tim. vi. 16). "Man must seek 
.for immortality" (Rom. ii 7), but will any man seek 
for that which he already consciously possesses ? The 
final decree for the race is, "this mortal must put on 
immortality" (1 Cor. xv. 53.) for the grand destiny 
of the mortal is to emerge from "Corruption into the 
glorious liberty of the children of God" (Rom. 
viii. 21). 

The Soul Goes Into the Grave. 

"Man's soul draweth near unto the grave" (Job 
xxxiii. 22). "God will redeem my soul from the 
power of the Grave" (Psalm xlix. 35). David says, 
"Thou hast brought up my Soul from the Grave," and 
he adds as if in explanation, "Thou hast kept me alive" 
(Psalm xxx. 3). "Our Soul is bowed down to the 
dust" (Psalm xlix. 35). "God remembereth we are 
dust" (Psalm ciii. 14), but does not remember the 
more important, immortal part that we claim is not 
dust: "So man (every part) lieth down, and riseth 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 67 

not, till the heavens be no more ; they shall not awake 
nor be raised out of their sleep. All the days of my 
appointed time will I wait till my change come. If 
I wait the Grave is my house. " (Job xiv. 12-14 and 
17:13). Paul also teaches that life is extinct at death, 
for he makes resurrection the only hope of a future 
life. He says, "If Christ be not raised (from the 
dead) your faith is vain: they who are fallen asleep in 
Christ are perished" (1 Cor. xv. 17. 18). "Dust thou 
art, and unto dust shalt thou return" (Gen. iii. 19). 

Death is a dreamless sleep. "In death there is no 
remembrance of thee" (Psalm vi. 5), the body does not 
remember in Life. "The dead praise not the Lord" 
(Psalm cxv. 17). "The living know that they shall 
die : but the dead know not anything. Their love and 
hatred is now perished, neither have they any more 
a portion forever in anything that is done under the 
Sun" (Eccl. ix. 5. 6). Of a dead man, (Job. xiv. 2). 
"His Sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not, and 
they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of 
them." "God breathed in Man the breath of life." 
"His breath goeth forth, He returneth to His earth, 
in that very day His thoughts perish" (Psalm clxvi. 
4). "Thou takest away their breath, they die and re- 
turn to their dust" (Psalm civ. 29). "Then shall the 
dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit 
(breath of life) return unto God who gave it" (Eccl. 
xii. 7). "That which befalleth men befalleth beasts:: 
as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all 
one breath. All go into one place; all are of the dust, 
and all turn to the dust again, who knoweth the spirit 
of Man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast 
that goeth downward to the earth?" (Eccl. iii. 19). 
When Solomon asks, "Who knoweth the spirit of 



68 LOST AND FOUND. 

man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that 
goeth downward? he may be referring to the mystery 
of the breath of life, that man breathes erect, while the 
beast is on all fours ; or he may be controverting the 
doctrine of inherent immortality, when he asks, "Who 
knoweth? Meaning where is the proof? for he had 
just said that man in death has no prominence above 
a beast." Ruach, the Hebrew word, is translated 
wind or breath as well as spirit. It is strange, if the 
doctrine is true, that Scripture never once mentions 
'"the never-dying Soul." Moreover, the term Soul is 
not applied exclusively to Man. "Let the waters 
bring forth the moving creature that hath Life" (Soul, 
see margin). (Gen. i. 20-30). "Every living Soul 
died in the sea" (Rev. xvi. 3). Human Souls do not 
live in the sea. "Man became a living Soul." So the 
Soul is not a mysterious, incomprehensible, inde- 
finable part of man, but what man is. He was a dead 
Soul, now he became a living Soul. 

The parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke xvi.). 
Christ explained that He spake in parables that some 
"might not understand " (Luke vi. 10. Mark iv. 12). 
So to accept the surface meaning of this parable is to 
give evidence that we do "not understand." The key 
to this parable may be the 16th verse. "The law and 
the prophets were until John. Since that time the 
kingdom of heaven is preached, and every man press- 
eth into it." The rich man represents ancient Israel, 
— his clothing, purple and fine linen, being the very 
dress of their priests. They were "rich" in peculiar 
privileges, and the law and the prophets were theirs 
exclusively. This was "until John. Since that time 
the kingdom of God is preached," which excludes no 
man, but the superior advantages of the Israelites 



THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 69^ 

were to pass away, and this change is symbolized by 
death. Lazarus represents the Gentiles, who were 
"poor" in knowledge, etc., having no revelation from 
God, and could only approach the outer court, or 
"gate" of the temple for "crumbs" of knowledge and 
comfort. Their change for the better, to keep up 
the harmony of the parable, is also represented by 
death, ("Ye are dead, and your life is hid with 
Christ,") and the Gentiles find themselves in Abra- 
ham's bosom : "For if ye be Christ's then are ye Ab- 
raham's seed" (Gal. iii. 9*). 

Neither will they be persuaded though one rose 
from the dead, was proven true when a Lazarus was 
raised. — By Mrs. P. A. Krise, Lynchburg, Va. 

THIRD EXTRACT. 
PRESENT TRUTH. 

I well remember when my attention was first called' 
to this Scripture in 2 Peter i. 12 — "Be established in 
the present truth," and I saw its real significance. 
The present truth is not any and every truth, however 
grand and important it may be; the present truth is 
that particular truth that is due now 7 ; it is especially 
important because it is due now : it was not so import- 
ant a few years ago; it will not be so important a few 
years hence; now is the time when this particular 
truth is important; if you are aware of this fact and 
seize the golden opportunity while yet it is within 
your reach, happy are you ; if you let it slip by it is 
gone forever. Every business man knows how im- 
portant it is to note the times in order to succeed ; the 
market must be continually studied; supply and de- 
mand considered; the tastes of prospective buyers con- 



70 LOST AND FOUND. 

suited, etc., etc. One must be alive and strictly up-to- 
date in order to succeed in any business enterprise; 
this fact is recognized by every man of the world, and 
the man that does not recognize it and act accordingly 
will soon go to seed, from a business point of view. 
Now Jesus said that the children of this world were 
wiser in their generation than the children of light, and 
the above is one of the instances where their superior 
wisdom is clearly shown. The development and unfold- 
ing of God's truth is new and fresh continually ; like 
the unfolding of a life, like the evolution of a charac- 
ter, like the attainment of an education; if you are 
walking in the light, "as He is in the light," you will 
be able to receive the truth as it unfolds — like a bus- 
iness man watching the telegraphic report of the 
market — so you being in the light and "on the spot" 
are ready to take advantage of the latest news of the 
movements of Him who worketh all things after the 
counsel of His own will, and to know up-to-date what 
your Lord is doing. 

"Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He re- 
vealeth His secrets unto His servants, the prophets." 
"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him." 
"Eye hath not seen^ nor ear heard, neither have en- 
tered into the heart of man the things which God hath 
prepared for them that love Him (or "for Him that 
waiteth for Him. Isa. lxiv. 4). But God hath re- 
vealed them unto us by His spirit; for the spirit 
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." (1 
Cor. xi. 9. 10.) These are wonderful promises and 
they show how close and intimate may be the believ- 
er's relation to God — as a familiar friend, with whom 
the most high talks over His plans. 

Truth is dispensational ; God has a due season ; 



PRESENT TRUTH. 71 

great truths are hid in Him for ages and for genera- 
tions and then revealed to certain ones and under cer- 
tain conditions. (Rom. xvi. 25. 26; Eph. iii. 5-9; Col. 
1, 26.) The truth is not discovered, it is revealed; it 
is not revealed at any time and all times, but in God's 
"due season/' in "the fullness of time;" nor is it re- 
vealed to any and every one, but to His servants, the 
prophets, to the saints, to His friends, to them that 
fear Him. We are living in an era of the world more 
important than has ever yet dawned upon the race, 
and the present truth now is of corresponding import- 
ance. The present era is analogous to that of the 
flood, but far more momentous ; it is now "as it was 
in the days of Noah," but now as then the world 
"knoweth not (Matt. xxiv. 39), and a worldly church 
is involved in an ignorance equally dense. We are 
passing from one age or dispensation to another age, 
as at the first advent of Christ ; but more than that, we 
are passing from world (kosmos) to another world, 
as at the flood. This evil, corrupt, wicked state of 
things, with Satan at its head, is passing away, and the 
time is close at hand when the dominion of this world 
shall become the dominion of our Lord and His Christ. 
The great truths connected with these momentous 
events constitute the present truth, viz : the second 
coming of Christ, the setting up of His kingdom, the 
total destruction of the present order of things. The 
resurrection and perfection of the "first fruits," the 
inauguration of "the times of the restitution of all 
things" etc., etc., these are events the like of 
which have never been known in the past, the import- 
ance of which have not entered into the heart of man 
to conceive. Are you in the light? As a snare shall 
"that day" come on all them that dwell on the face of 



72 LOST AND FOUND. 

the whole earth; take heed that it come not "una- 
wares" on you. (Luke xxi. 34. 36.) — By A. P. Adams: 
in Spirit of the Word. 

Since adding these testimonials, it would seem that 
our subject under discussion has been substantially 
strengthened by the word of present truth, which with 
positive evidence that indicates that a lost world has 
been found, or rather the process whereby the restitu- 
tion of all things will be accomplished in the next age 
and world to come/ which God our Father hath spoken 
by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world 
began (Acts iii. 21-25). The writer's name will not 
appear in this first issue for following reasons : First, 
common people at the present day, especially without 
an education in the sciences of worldly wisdom or the 
equivalent in finances are without honor or influence 
in their native land. Therefore old acquaintances 
might read and give thought to this most important 
subject if they knew not from whence it came; sec- 
ondly, the first issue will be small for lack of suffi- 
cient funds at time of publication. My intention had 
been to distribute them free in various ways, but after 
due consideration, I have concluded that a greater 
number of readers can be supplied at the same ex- 
pense by loaning the books on a 10 day limit free, ex- 
cept for postage and mailing, and think 10c in postage 
will be sufficient. However, should any reader feel 
more liberally inclined, we would not refuse an extra 
stamp or two. In order to create a fund for another 
issue, an extra of 5c a week or fraction thereof will be 
charged after limit expires. The writer would be 
pleased to send a copy, postage prepaid, to any one of 
the Father children, who are really not able financially 
to obtain one. If any one would like to know the 



LOST AND FOUND. 73 

name of the writer before it appears in the next issue, 
lie can have it by sending postal to Lost and Found, 
Columbus, Ohio. 

PARADISE OF SLEEP. 

No pencil may paint the grandeur of the sleep which 
He gives at last 

When the passionate pain, the yearning, the torturing 
fears are past, 

When the slumber of silence cometh white as the fall- 
ing snows, 

As pure as the kiss of childhood or the heart of an 
opening rose ; 

No brushes portray the silence that no summoning 
voice can break 

Till the final trumpet soundeth its gladdening cry, 
"Awake." 

No sound makes the eyelid quiver, no moan may har- 
row the rest 

Till the dawn of that blissful morning, the brightest 
of all, the best. 

No language may speak of the quiet, nor tell of its 

infinite hush, 
The slumber that knows no waking, despair of the 

artists's brush, 
When the strong hand of the Master has righted every 

wrong 
Till the silence, o'ercharged with rapture shall quicken 

and burst in song. 

No sculptor can chisel the beauty, the calm of that last 

repose, 
The troubles are all forgotten, no dreaming the sleeper 

knows ; 



74 LOST AND FOUND. 

Ah then, in that wondrous stillness when the toil of 

the clay is past, 
Like a child enfolded, rest we in the arms of love at 

last. 

— Helen Hart Woodworth. 

lord's prayer. 

In conclusion I now present the Lord's Prayer with 
interpretations as I believe to be in harmony with the 
spirit of the petition and also in harmony with the fore- 
going subject according to my understanding. 

Our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy 
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth 
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. 
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
evil ; for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the 
glory forever. Amen. 

It was stated when introducing our subject, that the 
Bible was made for man and not man for the Bible. 
And the Lord's Prayer, I may say truthfully, has been 
handled with as little knowledge of its spiritual intent 
as any combination of sixty-five words that could be 
found in our Father's Holy Word with such profound 
magnitude when spiritually comprehended. Never- 
theless it has been used with about the same ceremonial 
repetition as the bells that call those of the Father's- 
children to their accustomed places for worship. Not- 
withstanding it has been and is being used just as our 
Father comprehended it would be used ; for the Lord 
worketh all things after the counsel of His own will 
(Eph. i. ii ), and it has helped man into the higher 
walks of life. And many devout children have re- 
peated this most profound petition with sincerity anct 



LOST AND FOUND. 7-3 

honor to Him that loved them and gave His life a 
sacrifice, that they might know the way of life by His 
loving example. 

Our Father which art in heaven. What magnitude 
when comprehended, the world's (peoples), Father, 
your Father, my Father. It is no wonder to those that 
can comprehend the Fatherhood of God our Father, 
that He gave His only begotten finished Son for this 
special purpose that the world, His children might 
know their Father which art in heaven. This only be- 
gotten Son contained all the essential elements of 
heaven. For it was the Father that dwelt in the Son 
and the Son in the Father. 

Hallowed be Thy name O righteous Father (John 
xvii. 25). Father glorify Thy name (John xii. 28). 
My Father is greater than all (John x. 29), these and 
similar expressions was the reverent attitude of Jesus 
at all times. He was our example. 

Thy kingdom come. The attitude just described 
produced this indwelling kingdom for the Father 
within the earthly tabernacle. 

Thy will be done was the proof of this indwelling 
kingdom of the Father. It was, Father, Thy will not 
mine be done. 

Give us this day our daily bread. It was the bread 
of life this petition calls for. I am the bread of life 
(John vi. 48). I am the living bread which came 
down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he 
shall live forever (John vi. 51). 

But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye 
know not of (John iv. 32). There was not anything 
material in this petition called the Lord's Prayer. This 
daily bread can only be partaken of through regenera- 
tion. 



76 LOST AND FOUND. 

And forgive us our debts, whenever we are in the 
-attitude to forgive our debtors. Reciprocity is the result 
which is in harmony with our Father's unchangeable 
love. 

And lead us not into temptation. Isn't this petition 
directed to our Father which art in heaven? For thine 
is the kingdom, surely then He has the power and the 
glory to work all things after the counsel of His own 
will (Eph. i. ii ). But this is mot accepted by multi- 
tudes of the Father's children, and why, according as 
it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, 
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should 
not hear unto this day (Rom. xi. 8). Paul says, for I 
speak to you Gentiles inasmuch as I am the Apostle 
of the Gentiles (Rom. xi. 13). God our Father hath 
concluded them all in unbelief that He might have 
mercy upon all. For of Him and through Him are all 
things to whom be glory forever. Amen. (Rom. xi. 32- 

.36.) 

First written 1891-92. 
Rewritten 1903. 



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